Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm curious if I missed something in the policy manual that mentioned > paragraphs which are unknown. I find no mention of the Vcs-* fields > but I don't know if they're supposed to just be copied as-is. I've > seen the stuff on X-Comments and all the rules for X[BS]*- stuff, but > not the Vcs- stuff in the policy manual. > > However, I did find those fields noted in the Developer Reference > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-vcs > > Should this be something in the policy itself?
I think so. But in general Policy doesn't document every possible field, only the ones with Policy significance. dpkg from time to time adds additional informational fields without needing a Policy section first. However, I think that ones that become established should gain Policy documentation so that we can be sure of interoperability, like we did with Homepage. I don't remember if there's a bug filed asking for inclusion of the Vcs-* fields already. If there isn't and you feel like tracking this down, a bug that has a pointer to the specification would be great, or a proposed specification. For Lintian, we had trouble finding documentation for what the contents should be for some cases, particularly Vcs-Mtn. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org