On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:43:00PM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We could just use the existing support for user-defined fields for a > > while though. > > Oh ! Where can I read about these? They aren't mentioned in > deb-control(5) or /usr/share/doc/dpkg nor /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev ...
I think they're in an obscure place in policy somewhere, possibly in the appendices from the old packaging manual. At any rate, 'XB-Upstream-Homepage:' in a binary stanza in debian/control leads to 'Upstream-Homepage:' being in the binary package's control file. The point was validly raised in a previous thread that using these means changing packages twice in the event that dpkg is eventually changed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
