Re: Bug#203145: (uploaders in control) Note: not in .deb
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:44:19 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> said:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:18:55PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:44:15PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar
>> wrote:
>> > Please note that current packaging scripts do not propagate the
>> > Uploaders: field into .deb's. So either policy should not require
>> > that (or evenforbid it), or the packaging scripts should be
>> > changed to _do_ propagate this information (needing a rebuild of
>> > _all_ debs of packages that have comaintainers, but as a policy
>> > version bump requires such a rebuild, this is no issue).
>> >
>> > The .dsc has the Uploaders field propagated though.
>>
>> This is a standard dpkg behaviour. For each field, dpkg know
>> whether the field need to appear in .dsc, .changes or
>> DEBIAN/control, as explained in Policy chapter 5
> Indeed, and it says it isn't propagated at all for unknown fields,
No. It says "user defined fields" and unsupported fields are
not propogated. Obviously, fields that are propogated are supported
by the packaging tools.
> while it apparantly IS propagated for .dsc files: the Uploader:
> field must be somewhere coded in dpkg for this to happen (or dpkg
> isn't policy compliant and propagates any unkown field from
> debian/control to .dsc, but I won't assume this).
Policy is neither all encompassing, nor is it documentation
for dpkg.
> Anyway, how this is happening exactly is not relevant, what the
> policy should be is relevant, and current dpkg behaviour is of minor
> but indeed some importance (as it has direct consequences for ease
> of implementation of policy, simply documenting current behaviour
> would be by far the easiest).
Quite. And policy is not meant to exhaustively define all
fields in control files. dpkg can add more fields, and support them,
if it is needed.
If there is need (and that is the operative words), currently
used fields can be documented in policy. I fail to see the need in
this case, but I am willing to be educated.
manoj
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