On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear dpkg developpers, > > a puzzled user posted a question about XS-, XB- and XC- fields on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] some time ago, and I realised that although > XS-* fields are widely used they are not documented. > > The attached patch attempts to do it, but I am not completely sure of > its accuracy.
[...] > --- a/man/dpkg-genchanges.1 > +++ b/man/dpkg-genchanges.1 > +It will silently ignore fields prefixed by either XS- or XB-, and > +include fields starting by XC- (after removing this prefix). Well this is true but it's incomplete. If you go down that route, you have to document the same thing in dpkg-gencontrol (for XB-) and dpkg-source (for XS-). You must also explain that you can have several letters like XSBC- or XBS-. I would prefer if this could be documented in a single place but I don't see what would be the right place in that case. deb-control(5) documents the control file that we find in a .deb and not debian/control. Maybe we should create a new manual page documenting debian/control... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
