Package: dpkg Severity: wishlist This is not a real Bug, only some thoughts and I don't like to lose it. And now it is in the bts.... :-) dpkg sould build its database from several sources. Maybe it get the generally tags from a debian ftp server (with only Package:, Version:, all Depends, Recomments, ... But the admin should have the possibility to add some extra Tags from other sources, like Homepage:, X-Tags, or Descriptions-LANG: If dpkg has this support, maybe we can patch APT to download this extra Meta-Datas, with a souces.list file like this: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main extdeb http://people.debian.org/~user/debian-urls/ stable main extdeb http://server.localnet/debian-tags stable main Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Das Schlimme am Pessimismus ist eigentlich, meistens Recht zu bekommen." -- Michael Olbricht in dasr
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