Bug#514919: Removing support for uploads to multiple distributions
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Colin Watson wrote:
> However, I'm not convinced that it is correct to remove this feature
> from the *syntax*. While Ubuntu's archive maintenance software doesn't
> support it right now, several people have requested it
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/235064). If you're maintaining
> packages for a system that releases every six months, it turns out to be
> rather more likely in practice to be able to say that the same packages
> will work for several different releases, and less painful to maintain
> this state. .changes is a good format for interacting with Debian-format
> archives other than just Debian's, and this seems worth preserving.
Agreed.
In the long term, I would like to move all the documentation about the
syntax into dpkg itself and have the policy document how Debian uses
dpkg rather than documenting dpkg itself.
It's already in our TODO list to document the format of .dsc, .changes
and debian/control.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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