On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:05:14AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
It would be nice to have support for a Description field in the source
stanza of debian/control.
So, beside a few notable exceptions, the thread has a bit drifted to a
set of appreciations on the idea of using substvars to
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
- It is not standardized: substvars are set via custom commands in
debian/rules and there are thousands ways of setting them. When
opening a random source package, one would not know where exactly to
look for the common part of source
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:58:21PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
You completely misparsed my answer/suggestion. My suggestion is to follow
Sorry for not having been clear: I did not misunderstood your
suggestion, in fact ...
To fix that, it seems to me that the most reasonable solution
Hello,
2010/3/10 Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org:
The obvious drawback is that Sources file will increase in size. Given
that the size will be small compared to Packages file, I personally
don't see it as a showstopper.
Would Packages file size decrease applying your suggestion?
Is there
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:31:10PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote:
Would Packages file size decrease applying your suggestion?
Is there any chance to use this change to shrink Packages file size?
No, this proposal is completely orthogonal to that (and IMO should
remain so): we're talking about
[Stefano Zacchiroli]
To fix that, it seems to me that the most reasonable solution
advanced in the thread is to add a proper Description field to
source package stanzas. Then, in addition, we can setup an automatic
substvar, whose content is the source description, that can then be
used in
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