On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 09:02:39 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > +# DEB_DISTRIBUTION: the first distribution of the current entry in > > > debian/changelog > > > > Why only the first, what makes it special? If there's multiple filter > > can always be used. > > So that a simple equality test does a good approximation of what was > wanted in the few cases where there are multiple distributions. Because > simple equality test is what people are going to do since 99% of real life > usage in Debian implies a single distribution listed. > > Otherwise everybody must always use filter and compare to the empty > string. > > In the rare case where someone really wants the multiple distributions, > he can uses dpkg-parsechangelog directly.
Oh, but in Debian this should not happen as multiple distributions are not supposed to be allowed [0]. And given that the package checks are already Debian specific, say a safety net against uploading experimental packages to unstable, it should be safe to assume there's only going to be one distribution returned or the upload will fail anyway on DAK. If the upload would succeed then the safety net would not actually be safe as the order of the suites is not guaranteed. So returning all the values is fine, and would be useful for other derivatives where more than one is actually allowed, and for Debian using equality should also be just fine (although using filter would be more correct, would avoid archive checks assumptions and as such catch possibly bogus uploads earlier). regards, guillem [0] <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Distribution> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110921175517.ga18...@gaara.hadrons.org
