Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Yeah this isn't such a good idea. For instance I would tag some of my APT > builds to be
Sigh. Here we go again. > Origin: Debian > Bugs-To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Which is clearly entirely reasonable and legitimate. No, it's not. If you want to make a package special instead of making it an integral part of Debian change the Origin tag. > Perhaps some network query and cache should be defined - or at least a > more dynamic means that does not require packages to be installed. Lots of people don't use networks or apt. Any scheme that relies on either of those is broken. > The major reasons people objected to this before was because putting > 'Bugs' information in the control file of every package really really > sucks :P Not really, that's just your personal opinion. > This was brought up before too -- Debian packages probably should not be > tagged at all. Otherwise derived distributions will have to go and > unset/reset this which means a full dist recompile! They can just change the /etc/dpkg/origins/debian file. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
