Bug#78012: Origin and Bugs headers proposal

2001-02-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > And Debian packages could be packaged without any origin tag, and the > default/system one would be assumed. If there is no origin tag it will look for a Bugs tag, and if that is also not there one falls back to the system default. Wichert. -- ___

Bug#78012: Origin and Bugs headers proposal

2001-02-03 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > The system in `bug' is mainly targeted too to custom made packages, of > > multiple sources, not just the few well known huge makers of packages like > > Helix (Ximian! =) ) or Corel. > > That makes is a strict subset of the features of the dpkg based > approach, since that offers that as wel

Bug#78012: Origin and Bugs headers proposal

2001-02-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > The system in `bug' is mainly targeted too to custom made packages, of > multiple sources, not just the few well known huge makers of packages like > Helix (Ximian! =) ) or Corel. That makes is a strict subset of the features of the dpkg based approach, sin

Bug#78012: Origin and Bugs headers proposal

2001-02-02 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > What is the status of this proposal? Are we still undecided on its > > merits or do we just lack patches to the policy and packaging manuals > > to codify it? > > I'm still in favour of my proposal. > > > If we don't have consensus on this approach, maybe Nicolás' > > implementation of the

Bug#78012: Origin and Bugs headers proposal

2001-02-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Lawrence wrote: > What is the status of this proposal? Are we still undecided on its > merits or do we just lack patches to the policy and packaging manuals > to codify it? I'm still in favour of my proposal. > If we don't have consensus on this approach, maybe Nicolás' > imple

Bug#78012: Origin and Bugs headers proposal

2001-01-31 Thread Chris Lawrence
[cc'd to Nicolás and Wichert since they are probably the most interested parties & I dunno if they monitor -policy.] What is the status of this proposal? Are we still undecided on its merits or do we just lack patches to the policy and packaging manuals to codify it? If we don't have consensus