Re: Bug#521810: debian-policy: Document user defined fields starting with X-
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> If you're going to standardize a prefix that's purely for private,
> internal use and will never, ever be standardized in any fashion, could I
> convince you (and Nils) to use a prefix other than X-? E-mail has
> poisoned the well on X-, and now people read it to mean "anything that's
> not been standardized yet" and tend to use it for things that they do plan
> to standardize later. They're not all going to read the documentation.
>
> For this particular use, how about a prefix of Private- instead? That
> makes it much more explicit that if you're not the organization adding
> this, you shouldn't expect to understand it or ever use it.
It sounds weird to me on first sight but I would not mind using another
prefix. Let's see what Nils and Guillem think. (and others who might care)
Cheers,
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