Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> My wish is remove this exception and put 'Essential: yes' line after >> 'Status:' line as dpkg does for all other package entry lines. > > And what is the rationale for this change? > > (Such a change needs a rationale, it won't be done just to please you) It may (may, not essentially will) simplify some code that parse /var/lib/dpkg/status. Now one can't rely that it will be always 'Status' line after 'Package' entry. And, not related to previous, removing exception from some rule usually leads to cleaner understandings and cleaner and smaller code. If it's not the case, or such a change may break anything, then the change is undesirable. This is only a wish, after all.
-- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor
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