Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy

[Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>]

Le 21/08/2010 18:46, Sylvain Le Gall a écrit :
> We could even define a variable for this e.g. add:
> 
> origin = "Debian" 
> 
> in the META file. This is better than a comment: you can grep it and you
> can programmatically access it through findlib. It is also a construct
> allowed by META syntax (i.e. you can define useless variables).

I quite like the idea.

Florent Monnier wrote:
> in this example you can't use "origin" as a keyword too, because you can't 
> prevent an upstream to use an "origin" field too, for example:
> origin="janest"
> OK one can grep "origin" to display its content, but not *filter* the META files 
> that come from packagers.

I don't understand what you mean.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane