On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Toni Mueller wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sun, 16.07.2006 at 19:06:58 +1000, Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:19:45PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > >dpkg-genchanges: warning: unknown information field `Xb-Python-Version' in > > >input data in package's section of control info file > > > > It's just a warning. Check the generated package; if you run > > 'dpkg --info whatever.deb' you should see a Python-Version header. > > yes, it's a warning, and I assume(d) that you want to make the warning > go away. IMHO, developer tools should not emit warnings for conditions > which are mandated by the policy. Therefore I reported the bug because > apparently tools and policy are currently out of sync.
Except that there's no real agreement that this field is needed as part of the python policy. Quite a number of packages do not use it... Still, the warning is annoying. When people use a "XC" or "XS" prefix, they probably didn't create a new field by error ... I understand that we want to be more careful for standard headers but for XC/XS headers, we could be a bit less picky. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
