Re: PROPOSAL: command line for LSB package program

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> writes:
> >>   check   - check packages (md5 checksums, etc.)
> > dpkg right now has no way to do this..
> Then we remove the feature for LSB 1.0.

Checking is important. Can we make check required but allowed to report that
the feature is not available ?

> name:<package name>
> version:<package version>
> <additional defined fields, including method for vendor specific fields?>

Ok so

<field>:<string>

Also can we have

<field>:<string>
\t<string>
\t<string>
<field>:...

for multi-line items ?