Bug#58340: Proposal: add 'distro' control field

[Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:

> To avoid confusing mixes of distributions (like installing a Debian .deb in
> Corel or a Corel .deb on Debian), I think we should add a 'Distro: debian'
> control field to all packages and make Corel use 'Distro: corel'.
> 
> This not only would avoid a mess with broken dependencies (I've heard somewhere
> Corel had some...), but also make possible to check at first look (supposing
> someone was crazy enough to mix both) which distro did one .deb come from.
> 
> It would even be possible to add the "intended distribution" to the field
> (like: 'Distro: debian (potato, woody)' or after a release
>  'Distro: debian (2.2))

Calling it 'Distro' may be confusing (might also mean 'stable' or
'unstable'... I'd suggest to call it 'Vendor' instead... (less confusive,
and consistant with rpm)

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