On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 04:28:33PM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-08-10, Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> wrote: > >> Most -dbg packages *shouldn't* live in the archive, but maintainers > >> keep adding them by hand anyway, and we don't have anywhere else to > >> put them. > > Well, right now there is nowhere to put the .ddebs either, and > > they are really just .debs with a funny name too. Not very different. > > I agree that we do not really need the .ddeb extension as we need to > avoid clashes in the package namespace anyway, with the extension not > helping us with that.
I assumed (without knowing any rationale) that the .ddeb extension was devised so that mirrors could easily exclude them? I understand excluding by section or package pattern would be possible as well, but excluding by extension would probably be the easiest? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
