On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 04:15:22PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > why would it be important to change that kind of information for a package in > stable? The audience interested in this field is interested in uploads to > unstable, so is it not sufficient if the information is up-to-date there? For example, there's corner cases that get tricky. A package might only be in stable, but the maintainer wants to declare it as LowThresholdAdoptable. That would require an upload to unstable only to change that bit of metadata. Or Debian might be in a freeze, and uploading a new package version would be frowned upon. It's a lot simpler to keep this metadata outside source package. -- I want to build worthwhile things that might last. --joeyh
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