On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:32:50 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
Or, put differently, what's the difference between them in your idea?With "fix", cme decides what needs to be modified to fix warnings. For dpkg, this depends on the content of dpkg model. With "modify", the modification is decided by user. This command is intended to be used with arguments to actually modify dpkg files. For instance: cme modify dpkg-control source Maintainer="Foo <[email protected]>" The fact that some minor modification like reformat, migration of deprecated values (e.g. Priority extra changed to optional) is a side effect. Another less known command is "cme migrate" which is equivalent to "cme modify -save" (barring a bug which will be fixed with cme 1.044)
Thanks for taking the time to explain!
>I'll have to think about it. No hurry, I understand this is complicated, and it's just a minor thing.Another possibility is to change dpkg model so that: - by default priority is unchanged (no default value, no upstream default value) - when Standard-Version is >= 4.7.3 , a warning is emitted when Priority is set to optional with a fix to remove this value. I don't like this option because it may be confusing for "cme edit dpkg" users: the GUI will not show any hint on Priority's default value and user will get a warning when Priority is set to "optional" even if it is a legal value. IMHO, a warning should not be issued for a harmless value.
Agreed.
- for the time being, bumping the S-V (with sed etc.) before the call to `cme modify dpkg-control -save`, then the latter shouldn't add a removed Priority:optional back.Or you can do the same with : cme modify dpkg-control source StandardsVersion=4.7.3 or cme run update-standards-version
Well yes, but this also reformats d/control, which I wanted to keep in a separate step :)
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