On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > How to split up the Packages/Sources files into more granular pieces > would be nice, but which fields should go into which sets needs > defining, and which set of sets should be the default. For > compatability, it could continue to generate Packages/Sources as they > are and add Packages-Homepage, Packages-dpkg, Packages-user etc files > for updated apt/dpkg to use, allowing us to avoid waiting a whole > release cycle to use this stuff.
Looks like this bit is already being worked on: http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2009/msg00010.html > * Move of packages' long descriptions into a separate "translated > package list", which will facilitate their translation and also > provide a smaller footprint for embedded systems thanks to smaller > Packages files. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
