On 21 October 2016 at 12:06, Martín Ferrari <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 29/09/16 03:44, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > It seems that many Go packages include an XS-Go-Import-Path field in > > their control file, which AFAICT is only (?) used at build time from > > inside the same source package. > > AFAIK, this is true. > > > The XS- prefix tells dpkg-source to propagate that field to the source > > package (.dsc) and that in turn gets propagated to the Sources indices. > > With the additional bloat. If this field is never used by querying the > > Sources indices, I'd appreciate if you could switch to simply use the > > X- prefix instead. > > I can imagine this at some point being used for finding packages based > on their import path. But not sure if it is reason enough to keep the > header.. > > Maybe somebody else has a better argument for this? > I think this was the plan, that you'd be able to find the (Debian) package provide a given (Go) by using grep-dctrl or whatever. The fact that it's not used universally reduces its value, but the fix for that is different to what you suggest :-) Cheers, mwh
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