FWIW, I listed my goals and reasons for working on this in the blog post linked to in the head of this thread. I feel that I should bow out of this thread here. I've presented an idea, a working implementation, and addressed the issues with it to the best of my ability. Far too many times in this project I've seen a good idea be indefinitely delayed or killed when everyone piles on and nitpicks it to death. This idea is in danger of that happening. If the dpkg maintainers decide to add support to this format to dpkg, I'll be happy to work with them to make any further fixes needed to my patch. (My git repo has a couple more fixes in it BTW.) -- see shy jo
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