Bug#521810: debian-policy: Document user defined fields starting with X-
Nils Rennebarth <nils.rennebarth@funkwerk-ec.com> writes:
> 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.
Is this because the X in front of [BCS] is stripped off when the field is
copied into the resulting binary or source package? If so, that seems
like a bad design; I wonder if we can just fix that instead.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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