Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Charles Plessy wrote:

> +       <sect1 id="f-Package-Type">
> +         <heading><tt>Package-Type</tt></heading>
> +
> +         <p>
> +           Simple field containing a word indicating the type of package:
> +           <tt>deb</tt> for binary packages and <tt>udeb</tt> for micro binary
> +           packages.  Other types not defined here may be indicated.  In

udebs don't follow policy --- for example, as explained at [1] they do
not contain changelogs.  Any idea how we could sneak that information
in?

Jonathan

[1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/ch03.html