On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 11:31:37AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > If there's a growing list of boolean control fields, isn't it the > > indication that some sort of tagging system might make more sense? > > > > Instead of three lines: > > > > XB-Popcon-Reports: no > > Rules-Requires-Root: yes > > Pants-Need-Washing: yes > > > > The same package could use a single line: > > > > Tags: no-popcon-reports, rules-needs-root, pants-need-washing > > ACK. > > > (aside: by default rules doesn't need root... that would make one not- > > very-useful line less in so many packages!) > > I'd like to stress this! If "rules-needs-root: no" would be default > the majority of packages could be build. So why not making this the > default and just specify > rules-needs-root: yes > if needed? First, strictly speaking it's not boolean, at least until #975637 is implemented. Second, changing the default is a breaking change. Is there any statistics how many of the packages not already having a Rules-Requires-Root field (which are a half of them according to trends.d.n) are working fine with Rules-Requires-Root: no? Also note that "yes" doesn't exist, the correct value for the current default is "binary-targets". -- WBR, wRAR
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