Don Armstrong <[email protected]> writes:

> Is there any reason why we can't transition official X-* headers to
> real * headers as they become widely used (and when they're inshrined
> in policy)?
>
> Some transition period would be necessary, and dpkg-gencontrol could
> be patched to automatically rename the X-* headers to * for the
> transition period (and tools that use the header should look at both
> X-* and * headers[0]).

Hm, that's an excellent point.  I hadn't thought about that.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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