Steve Langasek wrote: > 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. >
And that metadata file can then be generated automatically using the machine-readable debian/copyright file spec we discussed last UDS. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
