Bug#514919: Removing support for uploads to multiple distributions

["Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>]

* Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> [090211 22:30]:
> The Policy section detailing the "Distribution" field in .changes files
> specifies that the field may contain a space-separated list of
> distributions. Whilst this is technically accurate, the feature has been
> deprecated since the "testing" distribution became an official part of
> the archive and is, imho, obsolete; the use case of uploading the same
> package to unstable and the frozen-stable-to-be as a single upload no
> longer applies.
>
> I discussed this with a couple of members of the ftpteam on IRC earlier
> today, and they were both in favour of removing support for the feature
> from dak. One of them had a dig through the archives and discovered that
> there have been no multiple-distribution uploads since 2004; even then
> there was only the one upload in that year, with the grand total of
> three in 2003.

I agree that this is no longer needed within Debian, but I think it is
still a usefull feature and use it a lot in local repositories, so would
like to have changes handling tools continue to support it.

Hochachtungsvoll,
	Bernhard R. Link