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From: Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: dpkg-source: still complains about Enhances fields
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This field is documented in the policy, and should not be complained about.
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Hi,
This is still not a policy bug. The policy mentions a field
that is useful in its own right, even if the tools have not yet been
enhanced to recognize it. So the tools do not know all that policy
fields that exist. They shall in time. Policy is not documentation
for dpkg and apt.
Already, the presence of this field enable the package to
inform the human who is installing stuff that some package enhances
others. This is useful even without apt and dpkg knowing about it.
I think one should get ones head out of the tools-hole-in-the-sand
and realize that people installing debian are humans,and they may
have a modicum of intelligence, and follow these hints.
apt-cache, st least, does show the enhances field.
I am yet again closing this bug.
manoj
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