On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I would suggest to fix lintian to accept all variants just like > > dpkg-gencontrol/dpkg-genchanges do and just like debhelper does. > > So does dpkg-dev now discard Package-Type for udebs? Or not?
No, it does not. Guillem wants to keep it, d-i team wants to discard it. > AFAICT, that seems to be the key issue behind keeping XC-Package-Type > and why the lintian warning was used in the first place. [I suppose an > alternative would be a lintian warning which noted the presence of > Package-Type: in the udeb itself instead of looking at the source > package's debian/control, which would allow this transition.] I know this is the key issue, that's why the subject of the request is the only question "Should Package-Type be included in udebs or not?". There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches, they have been listed in the bug report that I linked and I'm asking the committee to weigh those advantages/drawbacks and to make a decision for us. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100401060948.ga5...@rivendell
