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Re: Release impact of introducing a new archive section?



On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Josh Triplett wrote:

> If we can get every package to handle this entirely at runtime, then
> ideally I'd suggest archive metadata downloaded by apt.  That would have
> the advantage of automatically handling new sections, including for
> third-party archives.  Packaging it doesn't have that advantage, though
> it also seems logistically simpler.

A file in the archive with support code in apt would be much better,
especially since it could include translations too.

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pabs

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