Nils Rennebarth <nils.renneba...@funkwerk-ec.com> writes: > Usually, unknown fields are iggnored by the debian packaging system. To > avoid conflicts of user defined fields with field that may be used by > debian in the future, we suggest to use field names starting with X- (so > you need to put X[BCS]-X-foo into the control file) which are guaranteed > to never conflict with future official fields.
Is this because the X in front of [BCS] is stripped off when the field is copied into the resulting binary or source package? If so, that seems like a bad design; I wonder if we can just fix that instead. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
