Package: debian-policy Version: 4.0.0.2 Severity: wishlist A discussion in #865720 got me thinking that there is some data maintained in Policy that would be useful to have in a machine-readable format. The things that have occurred to me so far are:
- The list of registered virtual packages - The list of archive sections and their descriptions - The list of valid Debian control field names (by type of control file) These are things that either we already maintain or that have no other obvious place to live. This data could then be consumed by packages like lintian (although that's a bit tricky for lintian.debian.org), libconfig-model-dpkg-perl, etc. The idea would be to provide these in some machine-readable form (probably JSON unless someone has objections) in files under /usr/share/debian-policy or some similar path (so that software can consume them) in a separate binary package built from the debian-policy package (debian-policy-data, perhaps) so that other packages can depend on that package without pulling in the larger human-focused Policy documentation. If anyone has ideas for other things that should be included, or any concerns, please speak up! -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: pn doc-base <none> -- no debconf information
