On 01/06/2013 01:12 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > we are documenting in the Policy the Package-List field of the Debian source > control files. > > Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from > the source package. The first line of the field value is empty. > Each one of the next lines describe one binary package, by listing > its name, type, section and priority separated by spaces. There > are two possible package types: binary package (<tt>deb</tt>) or > micro binary package (<tt>udeb</tt>). > > I do not know if this field should be marked mandatory, recommended or > optional. Is this field is strictly necessary for uploads ?
Recommended should fit: it's currently not required, but useful. dpkg also adds it by default. dak might also use it in the future to check that packages built only binaries listed there. I don't think the description for the Package-List field should document the valid package types. There's already a Package-Type field for that (defaults to deb and only seems to be used in d/control in the source package). Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50ec2246.2000...@debian.org
