Charles Plessy <[email protected]> writes: > Le Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:54:53AM +0200, David Kalnischkies a écrit :
>> And the fields defining a difference in versions are: >> Installed-Size, Depends, Pre-Depends, Conflicts, Breaks and Replaces. >> Differences in all other fields are ignored (as they are not guaranteed to >> be present - the status file e.g. misses the deb filesize as well as >> checksums for obvious reasons). > Installed-Size is not marked as mandatory or recommended in the Debian > policy. Do you think this is something to be corrected ? > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-binarycontrolfiles Installed-Size is generated automatically by dpkg-buildpackage, so the only way that you'd get a package without it is by manually creating a package, which nearly no one does. So in practice it's always there, although it might not be a bad idea to make that clear in Policy. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
