Re: homepage in udebs?
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:59:43PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sponsoring ttf-khmeros, which produces a font udeb for d-i. The latest ttf-khmeros update moved the homepage from the package description to the new dpkg source package field. As a result, lintian complains with I: ttf-khmeros-udeb udeb: unknown-field-in-control homepage. Is this a bug in dpkg-buildpackage for propagating the homepage to the udeb, or a bug in lintian? I'm inclined to think the former, as homepages probably aren't much use in udebs. I'm honestly not sure. udebs are a bizarre special case with no complete specification that I know of, so there isn't really a reference for what they should and shouldn't have relative to a regular package. (Ideally, we should specify udebs in Policy, but part of the point of udebs is that they often don't comply with Policy, so this is tricky.) I'd check with the d-i team and ask them their opinion. I'm happy to modify lintian to match if needed. With my d-i hat on, I would certainly recommend not including the Homepage field in udebs. It's not actually forbidden as such, but any waste of space in udebs is frowned upon. I expect you could work around this by putting the Homepage field in the binary stanza rather than in the source stanza. The nearest we have to a specification of udebs is installer/doc/devel/modules.txt in d-i SVN (which corresponds to doc/devel/modules.txt in the debian-installer source package). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: homepage in udebs?
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:30 +, Colin Watson wrote: With my d-i hat on, I would certainly recommend not including the Homepage field in udebs. It's not actually forbidden as such, but any waste of space in udebs is frowned upon. I thought as much. I expect you could work around this by putting the Homepage field in the binary stanza rather than in the source stanza. Hmmm, perhaps it would be best to fix it in dpkg so that the Sources have the homepage and the PTS can show the homepage. I'll file a bug about this tomorrow. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
homepage in udebs?
Hi all, I'm sponsoring ttf-khmeros, which produces a font udeb for d-i. The latest ttf-khmeros update moved the homepage from the package description to the new dpkg source package field. As a result, lintian complains with I: ttf-khmeros-udeb udeb: unknown-field-in-control homepage. Is this a bug in dpkg-buildpackage for propagating the homepage to the udeb, or a bug in lintian? I'm inclined to think the former, as homepages probably aren't much use in udebs. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: homepage in udebs?
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sponsoring ttf-khmeros, which produces a font udeb for d-i. The latest ttf-khmeros update moved the homepage from the package description to the new dpkg source package field. As a result, lintian complains with I: ttf-khmeros-udeb udeb: unknown-field-in-control homepage. Is this a bug in dpkg-buildpackage for propagating the homepage to the udeb, or a bug in lintian? I'm inclined to think the former, as homepages probably aren't much use in udebs. I'm honestly not sure. udebs are a bizarre special case with no complete specification that I know of, so there isn't really a reference for what they should and shouldn't have relative to a regular package. (Ideally, we should specify udebs in Policy, but part of the point of udebs is that they often don't comply with Policy, so this is tricky.) I'd check with the d-i team and ask them their opinion. I'm happy to modify lintian to match if needed. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: homepage in udebs?
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:59 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I'd check with the d-i team and ask them their opinion. I'm happy to modify lintian to match if needed. Thanks for that. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
