If I understand the proposal, I think I have a strong objection to the names of the fields.
> 2) Summary > > My proposal is, in short, the following: Define six new fields for > debian/control and specify their meaning. The six new fields are used > only in .dsc files and in the first paragraph of debian/control. They > are: [ Depends, Arch-Depends, Indep-Depends, Conflicts, Arch-Conflicts, Indep-Conflicts] I realize that these would be in the first stanza of the control file, and therefore don't technically conflict with the binary Depends/Conflicts fields, but I think it's going to lead to a lot of confusion, particularly for new maintainers. Why not name them Src-Depends, Src-Indep-Depends, etc. Steve
