Re: adding X-Vcs-Svn source field to ocaml related packages

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:18:40PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> 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.

Ok.

That said, i find the SVN field name a bit obscure, why was there not a more
straingthforward one (X-SVN or something such) chosen ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther