"Adam D. Barratt" <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes: > The Policy section detailing the "Distribution" field in .changes files > specifies that the field may contain a space-separated list of > distributions. Whilst this is technically accurate, the feature has been > deprecated since the "testing" distribution became an official part of > the archive and is, imho, obsolete; the use case of uploading the same > package to unstable and the frozen-stable-to-be as a single upload no > longer applies. > > I discussed this with a couple of members of the ftpteam on IRC earlier > today, and they were both in favour of removing support for the feature > from dak. One of them had a dig through the archives and discovered that > there have been no multiple-distribution uploads since 2004; even then > there was only the one upload in that year, with the grand total of > three in 2003.
This looks good to me in general. The only concern that I have is that there are other archive maintenance packages besides dak and some of them explicitly list multiple- distribution upload support as a feature (reprepro, for instance). Policy is specifically intended to describe the requirements for packages that are part of Debian, where dak matters the most, but this is specifically a description of the *.changes *syntax*. I'm a little unsure as to whether we should make multiple distributions a syntax error, when other tools support it, or instead just say that it's allowed in the syntax but the Debian archive doesn't support it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org