On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> Bugs is sort of an interesting case since there's no reason to ever > include it in a Debian package, but it's part of the package format and > people making packages for non-Debian distributions should be aware of > it. reportbug honors it when directing bugs to a different BTS. > > I wouldn't mind seeing it in Policy, although of course Debian packages > shouldn't use it since we want to use our BTS for everything and that's > the default. Sounds like it should be something documented in policy. lintian already complains about it: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/redundant-bugs-field.html I'm wondering why it is overriden by dpkg, any ideas? dpkg also overrides the Origin field, which is also strange. http://lintian.debian.org/tags/redundant-origin-field.html -- 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
