Bug#521810: debian-policy: Document user defined fields starting with X-
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.8.0.1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Please add something along the following lines to the section 5.7
> "User defined fields" to the debian policy manual:
>
> Usually, unknown fields are iggnored by the debian packaging system. To
> avoid conflicts of user defined fields with field that may be used by
> debian in the future, we suggest to use field names starting with X- (so
> you need to put X[BCS]-X-foo into the control file) which are guaranteed
> to never conflict with future official fields. That has the added bonus
> that dpkg-deb will not issue warnings about user defined fields
> at package build time.
Note: this bug has been filed due to the inclusion of
Nils patch in dpkg-deb that disables warnings on
fields starting with "X-": http://bugs.debian.org/353040
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