On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:57:22PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. But, ehm, since news bits can be > > classified per source package, they could be generated once a day, fed > > to dak and friends, in the pool and pushed to the mirrors. > I wonder how much it would confuse apt and its friends if we simply > piggybacked the information onto the Packages records by adding a new > field (with the entire text or just an URL), but without bumping the > version number.
It wouldn't confuse apt at all -- we already do that for Task: overrides, eg. I don't know if the code already exists for adding multi-line overrides (like Description: as opposed to Section:), though I'm not sure that would be a good idea (cf translations etc) either. It wouldn't be overly difficult to do this on a trial basis, if someone wanted to maintain the information and work out some sort of way to measure whether it's actually a good idea or not. Cheers, aj
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