Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:46:04AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > - have dak check those fields (would avoid packages built on ubuntu being > uploaded in debian) Hi Raphaël, That part may not be necessary since it was announced that all packages distributed by Debian will be autobuilt: D

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-27 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Russ Allbery wrote: > I wonder what's up with all the Gstreamer and Npp fields. Those are used to find the needed package for autocodec installation when you try to reproduce a package with a missing decoder/encoder/whatever (package gnome-codec-install). Cheers, Emilio signature.asc Descripti

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Paul Wise writes: > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/redundant-origin-field.html > > When I asked the dpkg developers about that, I think the answer was that > dpkg's use was intended as an example of correct use. Yes, but we also plan to auto-add the O

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-26 Thread George Danchev
> George Danchev writes: > > >> Autobuild should probably go into Policy. It's used for non-free > >> packages to indicate that it's legal for the buildds to build the > >> packages. > >> > >> Original-Maintainer is odd -- Ubuntu uses that for packages imported > >> and modified in Ubuntu, but

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev writes: >> Autobuild should probably go into Policy. It's used for non-free >> packages to indicate that it's legal for the buildds to build the >> packages. >> >> Original-Maintainer is odd -- Ubuntu uses that for packages imported >> and modified in Ubuntu, but I'm not sure wha

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-26 Thread George Danchev
> George Danchev writes: > > > Candidates for policy so far: > > http://people.debian.org/~danchev/survey/sorted/4policy > > (Multi-Arch field added) > > Oh, good, that's less than I thought there would be. IMO, standardized fields (non-XBSC) are quite well documented in policy, and I didn't

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev writes: > Candidates for policy so far: > http://people.debian.org/~danchev/survey/sorted/4policy > (Multi-Arch field added) Oh, good, that's less than I thought there would be. We should probably add Origin as well. > The rest are user-defined fields (X[SBC]) which are possible

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-26 Thread George Danchev
> George Danchev writes: > > > Okay, that sounds reasonable, provided all non-user-defined fields are > > standard, or otherwise illegal. Another standard field (i.e. non-X[BSC] > > ) I found is `Bugs'; seems they are hinting someone or something like > > BTS or LP, though I'm not exactly sure if

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > 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.

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Russ Allbery 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

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev writes: > Okay, that sounds reasonable, provided all non-user-defined fields are > standard, or otherwise illegal. Another standard field (i.e. non-X[BSC] > ) I found is `Bugs'; seems they are hinting someone or something like > BTS or LP, though I'm not exactly sure if it is good

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-26 Thread George Danchev
> George Danchev writes: > > > So, the question being: from where to start documenting and sorting > > these out: policy, dpkg/doc/, devref, wiki, blogs ;-), somewhere else. > > Standardized fields should be documented in Policy. Patches and > contributions are definitely welcome. (And person

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread George Danchev
> George Danchev wrote: > > You are correct, I missed these either because dpkg-scanpackages has not > > been invoked with -tudeb or udebs are not built for the official > > archive. > > They are in the official archive, but in separate sections (with their own > Packages files): '.../main/debian

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread Frans Pop
George Danchev wrote: > You are correct, I missed these either because dpkg-scanpackages has not > been invoked with -tudeb or udebs are not built for the official > archive. They are in the official archive, but in separate sections (with their own Packages files): '.../main/debian-installer/bin

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread George Danchev
> George Danchev wrote: > > I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control > > files (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different > > fields [1] used in testing and unstable, which basically fall into these > > groups: > > Looks like you did not include u

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev writes: > So, the question being: from where to start documenting and sorting > these out: policy, dpkg/doc/, devref, wiki, blogs ;-), somewhere else. Standardized fields should be documented in Policy. Patches and contributions are definitely welcome. (And personally, I think

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread Frans Pop
George Danchev wrote: > I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control > files (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different > fields [1] used in testing and unstable, which basically fall into these > groups: Looks like you did not include udebs in your s

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:55 PM, George Danchev wrote: > I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control files > (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different fields [1] used > in > testing and unstable, which basically fall into these groups: > > 1) listed

Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread George Danchev
Hi, I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control files (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different fields [1] used in testing and unstable, which basically fall into these groups: 1) listed in debian policy and accompanied sub-policies (like Python