Joey Hess writes ("Re: dpkg patch"):
> Well, we do store such info in the package, via the new Vcs- fields. I
> probably wouldn't mind if dpkg-source looked at those and turned on
> appropriate ignores.. Some people might argue that such a behavior would
> need to be disabled in some cases.Currently some people are deliberately uploading VCS metadata as part of the source package. So just looking at VCS-* and throwing that away is not an easy answer, unfortunately. > > I agree with this, I think. That's not to say that Ubuntu's ought to > > be identical. > > No more than it's important that the dpkg in debian stable and unstable > be identical. However, non-bugfix divergences that change behavior, and > that one distro can come to rely on, while another decides not to > support or use, can be a big problem. Indeed so. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
