On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:04:27AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > It's newer and shinier, so it must be better, right? > > > > If we're adding optional features, doing so in a way that doesn't > > confuse people into believing that all packages need to use them would > > definitely be a good thing, I think. > > I agree that this may become a problem. Can you suggest a better way? > Maybe list tags within the new field rather than using a number?
Instead of Rules-Version: in control, which specifies a single interface 'number', how about a Rules-Interface:, which contains a series of flags, specifying what features are supported? I leave it up to this list to decide what flags and what features get enabled/disabled.
