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Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1



On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:14:03AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Saturday 15 January 2011 14:03:39 Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > I went with the patch below. Thanks Zack, Charles, Andrei.

> > Index: dep5.mdwn
> > ===================================================================
> > --- dep5.mdwn   (revision 161)
> > +++ dep5.mdwn   (working copy)
> > @@ -149,12 +149,17 @@
> >       will usually be written as a list of RFC5322 addresses or URIs.
> >  
> >   * **`Source`**
> > -   * Required
> > +   * Required, unless there is no upstream

> From a parser point of view, this requirement cannot be verified unless 
> there's a way to know if a package is native or not.

True, but unavoidable.  The alternative is to not make the field required
under *any* circumstances; but this information is required by Policy
anyway, so making it optional in the format doesn't really affect anything.

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