Bug#697433: New field Package-List in .dsc
Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Le Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 03:14:00PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
>
> ftpmasters requested a new field in the .dsc files to ease their work.
> I just implemented it and it will be part of dpkg 1.16.0.
>
> This has been done on short notice so I wanted to inform policy people
> so that you can review the discussions and the design in case anyone has
> objections/suggestions before it's in wide-spread usage:
> http://bugs.debian.org/619131
Hello everybody,
I just realised that we forgot to document this field.
How about the following patch.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 4dec04c..d2e506e 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2753,6 +2753,7 @@ Package: libc6
<item><qref id="f-VCS-fields"><tt>Vcs-Browser</tt>, <tt>Vcs-Git</tt>, et al.</qre
<item><qref id="f-Standards-Version"><tt>Standards-Version</tt></qref> (recommend
<item><qref id="sourcebinarydeps"><tt>Build-Depends</tt> et al</qref></item>
+ <item><qref id="f-Package-List"><tt>Package-List</tt></qref></item>
<item><qref id="f-Checksums"><tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt>
and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
<item><qref id="f-Files"><tt>Files</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
@@ -3812,6 +3813,19 @@ Checksums-Sha256:
</taglist>
</p>
</sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="f-Package-List">
+ <heading><tt>Package-List</tt></heading>
+
+ <p>
+ Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from
+ the source package. The first line of the field value is empty.
+ Each one of the next lines describe one binary package, by listing
+ its name, type, section and priority separated by spaces. There
+ are two possible package types: binary package (<tt>deb</tt>) or
+ micro binary package (<tt>udeb</tt>).
+ </p>
+ </sect1>
</sect>
<sect>
Does anybody know if this field mandatory or optional ?
Have a nice week-end,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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