Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > 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.
Could they be added as XB-Comment:? I use XS-Comment and it appears in the dsc, I don't know if XB-* appear in the deb or elsewhere. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]