Hi! On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 17:19:45 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > 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.
Hmm, I don't see any exception here, dpkg is always outputting the Essential field (if it has a 'yes' value) just after the Package field. > > 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. Well arguably, no one except dpkg should be parsing the status file. I know this might be tricky right now as dpkg does not provide a nicer way to access the whole data, which for example apt might need. But I hope to fix this during squeeze with the introduction of a libdpkg. > Now one can't rely that it will be always 'Status' line after 'Package' > entry. And one shouldn't! > 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. Again, I don't see the exception, for example dpkg will not care at all about the ordering of the fields, and will happily parse all fields from a reshuffled stanza w/o problems. So, I'm not sure I see the point in this bug report. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
