Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:43:00PM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We could just use the existing support for user-defined fields for a > > > while though. > > > > Oh ! Where can I read about these? They aren't mentioned in > > deb-control(5) or /usr/share/doc/dpkg nor /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev ... > > I think they're in an obscure place in policy somewhere, possibly in the > appendices from the old packaging manual. At any rate, > 'XB-Upstream-Homepage:' in a binary stanza in debian/control leads to > 'Upstream-Homepage:' being in the binary package's control file.
Huh. I'll have to play around with this. I would indeed rather use a field, even a custom field, if possible, since this is really data. I'm hearing just go with homepage only, no other data really needed. I'll make that change. > The point was validly raised in a previous thread that using these means > changing packages twice in the event that dpkg is eventually changed. That I don't follow. The only nice thing about using the description is that it is already supported by packages.debian.org, whereas a custom field would obviously not be supported there. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
