Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously Adam DiCarlo wrote: > > Comments desired. > > Perhaps it makes sense to think about all fields people would possible > want. The rpm format for example has a license field. Is that something > that people would like to see for deb as well?
Well, before I venture on this, is there a way we can store certain data in control.tar.gz or something but without bloating the Packages file? It seems to me that the hugeness of the Packages file is one of the largest scalability constraints in the Debian archive (thinking of user download times here) and we need to be very respectful of keeping its size down. There are perhaps some fields users would always want in the normal context (md5sum and all that) and some which are rather specialized (and the homepage thing goes in this latter category). This does feel like a debian-devel or debian-project issue rather than a policy issue, too...? -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
