Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 23:39 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> That said, if there's some desire for automated consumption of the list >> from the Policy package, I'd be happy to provide it in a >> machine-readable format. I wonder if there would be some merit in >> building a separate binary package from the debian-policy source >> package that includes a few lists like that (archive sections also come >> to mind) in machine-readable formats in /usr/share somewhere. > That sounds like a good idea to me, especially for archive section > descriptions, which are hard-coded in a number of packages: > https://wiki.debian.org/NewArchiveSections I'll create a bug. These days, I normally use JSON for that sort of thing. Does that seem reasonable, or is there a reason to use some other format instead? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
