Hi!
On Sun, 2024-12-15 at 09:27:06 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Historically, if you omitted `Priority` and `Section` from your
> package, `dpkg` would warn and use `-` or `unknown` as placeholder
> when it absolutely needed a value for these fields in the `.dsc` and
> the `.changes` file. The re
Hi,
since feedback was requested the normally unwanted +1 ...
Am Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 09:29:26AM + schrieb Holger Levsen:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 09:50:17AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > both sound good (dropping mandatory priority is nice and consistent,
> > fixing unknown section behav
Charles Plessy:
Le Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Niels Thykier a écrit :
We would like [...] that `dpkg` provides defaults [...] if the fields
are omitted from `debian/control`, you get `Priority: optional` and
`Section: unknown` as default in all artifacts (`.dsc`, `.changes`,
and in t
Le Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Niels Thykier a écrit :
> We would like [...] that `dpkg` provides defaults [...] if the fields
> are omitted from `debian/control`, you get `Priority: optional` and
> `Section: unknown` as default in all artifacts (`.dsc`, `.changes`,
> and in the `.deb`).
On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 09:50:17AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> both sound good (dropping mandatory priority is nice and consistent,
> fixing unknown section behaviour too), thanks!
indeed! thank you both!
> ideally these changes would be in dpkg in trixie, but maintainers would
> start dropp
Daniel Baumann:
Hi,
both sound good (dropping mandatory priority is nice and consistent,
fixing unknown section behaviour too), thanks!
Thanks for the feedback. :)
ideally these changes would be in dpkg in trixie, but maintainers would
start dropping priority fields *after* trixie so that f
Hi,
both sound good (dropping mandatory priority is nice and consistent,
fixing unknown section behaviour too), thanks!
ideally these changes would be in dpkg in trixie, but maintainers would
start dropping priority fields *after* trixie so that for backports we
woudn't need to add it back en mas
Hi,
Historically, if you omitted `Priority` and `Section` from your
package, `dpkg` would warn and use `-` or `unknown` as placeholder
when it absolutely needed a value for these fields in the `.dsc` and
the `.changes` file. The resulting `.deb` would omit the field.
We would like to change this
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