Re: Bug#521810: debian-policy: Document user defined fields starting with X-
Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:
> Is there any reason why we can't transition official X-* headers to
> real * headers as they become widely used (and when they're inshrined
> in policy)?
>
> Some transition period would be necessary, and dpkg-gencontrol could
> be patched to automatically rename the X-* headers to * for the
> transition period (and tools that use the header should look at both
> X-* and * headers[0]).
Hm, that's an excellent point. I hadn't thought about that.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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