On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 04:41:11PM +0200, Hannah Rittich wrote: > >> Furthermore, deb-substvars allows to reference the description > >> field of the source package, using the variables ${source:Synopsis} > >> and ${source:Extended-Description} [2]. > > > > Uh. TIL. However I find that odd. Regardless, that's dpkg's choice, > > and not Policy. > > > > I asked to the dpkg maintainers whether they had an intention to > > propose a corresponding Policy change for it, since TTBOMK, > > Description was never used in the source paragarph.
FTR, the dpkg maintainers pointed me to #555743 - so I think this "just" needs some Policy massaging. I filed #998165 on that regard, I guess you can follow that (but be aware it will likely take a while). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. More about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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