Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:36:35PM +0300, Shachar Or a écrit : >> >> What I am offering is the idea that package dependencies that are >> reccomendations or suggestions must be explained. > > Hi, > > Before I read your mail, I thought that it was not possible, but after > googling a bit, I found out that dpkg supports comments since version > 1.10.11: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446712 > > This is however just general comments, they are not meant to be parsed > for display to the end-user. I will nevertheless start to use them. I > think that it is very valuable in team-maintained packages, where it is > sometimes difficult to know what motivated the actions of another > developper years before. > > Have a nice day,
But will the comments be copied into the debian/package/DEBIAN/ dir? I doubt that. User would need those comments in the deb. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]