Re: new fields in debian/control
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Consider, if Corel distributes Debian + Their Junk they will want to get
> > bug reports for the whole thing not just their packages. Having them
> > rebuild all our stuff just to change those fields is not entirely good for
> > them - or us.
>
> So they ship a bugreporting tool that always submits stuff to their BTS.
Then this whole feature you want to add is rather pointless if you are
going to immediately turn around and say other people's tools should
ignore it.
> > It would be considerably better if there were some way for dpkg to be able
> > to store information from the Release file when installing a package, that
> > way things like the BTS are tied to the download location, not to the
> > person who created the .deb.
>
> dpkg has no access to the Release file.
Duh.
Why don't you try to fix that instead.
Jason
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