Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > Is there any reason why we can't transition official X-* headers to > real * headers as they become widely used (and when they're inshrined > in policy)? > > Some transition period would be necessary, and dpkg-gencontrol could > be patched to automatically rename the X-* headers to * for the > transition period (and tools that use the header should look at both > X-* and * headers[0]).
Hm, that's an excellent point. I hadn't thought about that. -- 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
