Re: Bug#619131: New field Package-List in .dsc
* Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> [110324 16:20]:
> > If it is only used to give hints to dak, what is the reason that this is
> > in .dsc and not in .changes? (Or perhaps even only in .changes that also
> > include a source package).
>
> Because this is information about the source package and not about the
> upload.
For example until today .dsc files did not contain information about the
Section and Priority of the source package[1]. That information was only
in the .changes file (I guess because it was mostly a hint to
ftp-masters, just like this information is now, too).
> I discarded the .changes because we would duplicate the information in all
> .changes while it's not needed. Putting it only in .changes containing a
> source might be doable but that has never been done before and I'm not
> sure it's a good idea to start with ("fields appearing depending on
> whether a source is uploaded or not").
I'd rather see this as "fields only there if the upload has something to
say in this regard".
Bernhard R. Link
[1] Which is something I'm very happy if it changes[2]. Though having it as
"Package-List:\n src:<srcname>" is a bit more complicated than just
having Section and Priority fields.
[2] Currently reprepro can guess it by things like parsing a .diff file,
which is code I'd be very happy if I could remove it in some years.
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