On Fri, 2017-12-29 at 12:32 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > On 2017-12-29 12:42, Paul Wise wrote: > > This is just a symptom of a Debian design flaw that dates back to > > before we started using VCSen for packaging. We include information in > > the source package that can change independently of the source package > > (such as Vcs-*, Homepage, debian/watch, Maintainer/Uploaders etc). > > These should be stored externally to source packages and merged into > > the Packages/Sources files by the archive software. > > You are right. It is just not easy to solve this, because this > information must be available on Debian systems. So it would be > something in parallel to downloaded Packages files, right? And > who generates this file(?) based on which information?
dak already maintains Section and Priority information ("override file") and uses that information in the Packages file instead of what a package's control file says. I would hope that a similar approach could be used for all the other fields that we may want to change without an upload. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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