Re: Fields used in packages
> George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> writes:
>
> >> Autobuild should probably go into Policy. It's used for non-free
> >> packages to indicate that it's legal for the buildds to build the
> >> packages.
> >>
> >> Original-Maintainer is odd -- Ubuntu uses that for packages imported
> >> and modified in Ubuntu, but I'm not sure what it's being used for in
> >> Debian. It seems like it might be worth documenting, though.
>
> > Autobuild and Original-Maintainer are user-defined (XBSC) and I thought
> > that policy should only mandate how user-defined fields are constructed
> > as it does in #5.7. Concrete user-defined fields are subject to the
> > user, eventually well documented so that can be reused by others. Make
> > sense?
>
> Right, we'd do the same thing we did with Vcs-* and turn them into the
> equivalent standardized fields without having them be user-defined.
> Autobuild is special in that the archive software already pays attention
> to a specific value.
Sure.
> Oh, what about Dm-Upload-Allowed? I didn't see that on your list, but
> surely there's a bunch of those?
Aha, sure there is a lot of these, I just didn't put its output in sorted/
directory, since it is already available as general stats at:
http://people.debian.org/~danchev/survey/4.dm_upload_allowed
(I added Autobuild and Dm-Upload-Allowed to my 4policy record)
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