On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Jari Aalto wrote: > > The right way to include a field in the .deb is to use > > fields named "XB-*". What doesn't work with such fields that would > > require this patch ? > > Let me put it this way: > > Make the X-<field> default to mean the same as XB-<field>, > where field is included in the binary package.
I don't think it's a good idea. Surely the X*- prefix need to be documented (that's already requested in another bugreport) but I'm not convinced that X-* should default to XB-*, what does it bring ? On the contrary, we already had fields that we did not want forwarded anywhere (X-Package-Type) and we would loose that possibility if we make X-* default to XB-*. We might want to add a warning however so that the user is informed that X-* is not propagated anywhere. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
