Re: RFC: new trace file field to declare updates to sync scripts
Raphael Geissert (geissert@debian.org) wrote on 2 July 2012 14:48:
>For instance, the latest ftpsync would generate the following line:
>Revision: i18n InRelease
>
>There will soon be made other changes to ftpsync to make it more robust, and
>any non-ftpsync script that follows those changes would be better off
>declaring it. This new field would be the way to do it.
>
>Comments?
>
>Using the augmented BNF as used in the HTTP spec, the new field could be:
>
>Revision = "Revision:" *(revision-token)
>revision-token = "InRelease" | "i18n" | "AUIP" | future-rev-token
>future-rev-token = 1*future-rev-token-char
>future-rev-token-char = ALPHA | DIGIT | "_" | "-" | "."
I prefer a single identification, so it'd be just
Revision = single string
A simple way is to use the ftpsync version. Otherwise the announcement
of a new ftpsync must declare the string identifier. I don't see what
an obfuscated string would add to the simple version.
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