Re: Fields used in packages
George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> writes:
> Okay, that sounds reasonable, provided all non-user-defined fields are
> standard, or otherwise illegal. Another standard field (i.e. non-X[BSC]
> ) I found is `Bugs'; seems they are hinting someone or something like
> BTS or LP, though I'm not exactly sure if it is good candidate for reuse
> [1]. I also sorted packages on per field basis [2] (most interesting
> fields, not all).
Bugs is sort of an interesting case since there's no reason to ever
include it in a Debian package, but it's part of the package format and
people making packages for non-Debian distributions should be aware of
it. reportbug honors it when directing bugs to a different BTS.
I wouldn't mind seeing it in Policy, although of course Debian packages
shouldn't use it since we want to use our BTS for everything and that's
the default.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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