Hi: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Julien Cristau<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:57:04 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > >> Oh. Interesting. I was (clearly) unaware of that. How recently was >> this? What was the reasoning behind it? > > I think this is the part where you do your homework.
You're right of course. I found this bug, and I'm not sure if it's the one that was alluded to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525151 But it seems like that was there to remove ambiguity of the name. What I meant for the sake of maintainability is to just point one to the other, as in: The Package field follows the same conventions and restrictions as the Source field. Although in practice I don't know if the duplication was put there for a good /reason/. On the other hand, having one refer to the other like that implies that both fields follow a common convention and thus can be parsed the same way. Hopefully dpkg takes that in the form of implementing a single subroutine to do the parsing. > > Cheers, > Julien > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
