On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:11:21PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Yes ... but why?
> No idea, how is this field used, and by whom ? And why did the Python guys
Ah ok :-)
> add a python version in this field. I suppose it is for something python
> versioning/abi-name related, which is similar to what we do.
>
> The question of interest is to know what the dpkg/apt/whatever tools do about
> this.
The fields named XS-whatever flows through (dak, whatever, ...) and
arrive to the Sources files without the heading "XS-". Similarly the
fields named XB-whatever end up in the Packages file.
I do not know more than this.
The python guys use that to decide at postinst time which binary version
of a python library precompile. We do not have such a need, our binary
packages already contain the compiled versions.
Cheers.
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