In March, I proposed adding some useful (to me) fields to the control file, along this idea:
Upstream-Bug-Browser: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=WWW-Curl Upstream-Bug-Submitter: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=WWW-Curl Which were furiously rejected by many people, in the usual and friendly tone commonly seen in -devel. > Do that please but keep your fingers off the Packages files. The value > of your meta information is not worth the costs of its distribution to > every user's local system. But just now I saw this in the dpkg changelog: dpkg (1.7.0) unstable; urgency=low {..} * Add Origin and Bugs fields to the control file {..} -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:28:39 +0100 Those were documented (or so) in deb-control(5) only last October, so it's no wonder nobody replied telling me that the idea I had was already implemented more than 7 years ago! Currently, there are about two source packages in the archive using these fields. There's no mention that I could find of those fields in the Debian Policy nor in the Dev Ref. I guess that reading dpkg source code should be added as a requirement to the NM templates. -- Martín Ferrari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
