Re: [PROPOSAL] Origin and Bugs support
Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Yeah this isn't such a good idea. For instance I would tag some of my APT
> builds to be
Sigh. Here we go again.
> Origin: Debian
> Bugs-To: mailto:apt@packages.debian.org
>
> Which is clearly entirely reasonable and legitimate.
No, it's not. If you want to make a package special instead of making it
an integral part of Debian change the Origin tag.
> Perhaps some network query and cache should be defined - or at least a
> more dynamic means that does not require packages to be installed.
Lots of people don't use networks or apt. Any scheme that relies on
either of those is broken.
> The major reasons people objected to this before was because putting
> 'Bugs' information in the control file of every package really really
> sucks :P
Not really, that's just your personal opinion.
> This was brought up before too -- Debian packages probably should not be
> tagged at all. Otherwise derived distributions will have to go and
> unset/reset this which means a full dist recompile!
They can just change the /etc/dpkg/origins/debian file.
Wichert.
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