]] Charles Plessy | 5.6.11 Standards-Version | | The most recent version of the standards (the policy manual and associated | texts) with which the package complies. | | This conveys the impression that the field is there to reflect a fact, rather | than being a convenience bookmark for the maintainer. Moreover, with this | definition, the field becomes outdated each time a new Policy is released | (except for minor patch levels). This very clearly qualifies it as meta-data, | and in the future, it woud benefit of being treated as such.
Yes, what is in debian/control _is_ metadata. Like, what is the package name, who is the maintainer, etc. I don't see why you think Standards-version is some other class of metadata than, say the maintainer, the homepage or the description. Or are you suggesting we should get rid of those too from debian/control, and if so, to what purpose? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
