Re: Fields used in packages
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
Sounds like it should be something documented in policy.
lintian already complains about it:
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/redundant-bugs-field.html
I'm wondering why it is overriden by dpkg, any ideas?
dpkg also overrides the Origin field, which is also strange.
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/redundant-origin-field.html
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