Re: Fields used in packages

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:

> 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

When I asked the dpkg developers about that, I think the answer was that
dpkg's use was intended as an example of correct use.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>