Bug#250202: Alternate proposal
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 04:07:01PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 02:37:34PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Both cases where I used 'must' do not make packages instantly buggy,
> > since they only apply to the 'source' target (that is the idea, at
> > least; if the wording isn't clear enough, I may need to fix that). If
> > you don't have that target, you don't have to comply with the must. The
> > 'source' target is a 'should', so a package that does not currently have
> > this target isn't buggy at all.
>
> Yeah, but I know quite a few older packages that contain a snippet like:
> source diff:
> @echo >&2 'source and diff are obsolete - use dpkg-source -b'; false
Oh, right, forgot about that one. Overloading that would certainly not
be a good idea.
Hm.
> Don't know why, this must be way before my time in Debian...
> It would be good to check for the amount of packages affected by that nevertheless.
True. What I'm looking for is something unique; so 'source' is clearly
right out. Perhaps 'edit' could be better, or 'finish'. Suggestions are
most certainly welcome.
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