Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I am also ambivalent about sections like 4.1 "Syntax of > control files". That section could be said to belong in policy, as > dictating the standard format of control files, and any change may > affect every package there is, on the other hand, this is merely > needed to ensure the correct working of dpkg and friends, and not a > policy issue. Maybe in both; if I'm going to make a more fleshed out dpkg reference manual or so it needs to be in there anyway since dpkg has some currently undocumented features to support experimental fields in control files. Those should not be part of policy. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | wichert@wiggy.net http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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