Re: Release impact of introducing a new archive section?
On 14518 March 1977, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> (my first thought was a canonical online location, but these tools may
>> not want that at runtime and can't rely on it at build time, but maybe
>> that should be the source used for the package)
> Packaging this data (section names, short descriptions, and long
> descriptions) seems like a great idea. Ideally, packages would have a
> Depends on this and use the data at runtime, rather than using a
> Build-Depends and compiling it in. With some care, such a package could
> also serve as the basis for the descriptions on packages.debian.org.
Does it need a package? Or just a file in the archive somewhere?
--
bye, Joerg
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