On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:14:44PM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > It would be cool if Debian and Ubuntu packagers could work together to > address this in the Packages.gz format.
I think this is unlikely to wind up in the Packages file in Debian over concerns about increasing the size of this index for all users with information not used by the package manager per se. But I agree it would be nice to make this information available to the software store, perhaps via an adjunct metadata file on the servers. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
