On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 04:41:11PM +0200, Hannah Rittich wrote:
> >> Furthermore, deb-substvars allows to reference the description
> >> field of the source package, using the variables ${source:Synopsis}
> >> and ${source:Extended-Description} [2].
> >
> > Uh. TIL. However I find that odd. Regardless, that's dpkg's choice,
> > and not Policy.
> >
> > I asked to the dpkg maintainers whether they had an intention to
> > propose a corresponding Policy change for it, since TTBOMK,
> > Description was never used in the source paragarph.
FTR, the dpkg maintainers pointed me to #555743 - so I think this "just"
needs some Policy massaging.
I filed #998165 on that regard, I guess you can follow that (but be
aware it will likely take a while).
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