Hi, On Fri, 03 Jun 2011, Niels Thykier wrote: > Nevertheless, dpkg-vendor is in the dpkg-dev package and that undermines > our work on #626476 (reducing dpkg-dev to a suggests). So if we could > use Dpkg::Vendor as fall-back in the absence of dpkg-vendor that would > be really great.
Ok, I have added it to the supported API. > On a slightly related note: we assume that a given vendor can only have > one "Parent". This is based on the code in dpkg-vendor which seems to > imply this is the case (the 'derives-from' action). > If this assertion does not hold, please let me know so I can correct it. It holds currently, but it's not really documented either. I doubt we'll have serious need to track multiple parents but who knows... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
