The last meeting, a side discussion happened. The question was about packages, which do exist in debian, but we don't consider debian as the merge base. In this case, we can save a lot of trouble by clearly saying this in the source package. Therefore I propose introducing the 'XS-Source-Origin' field in debian/control. User-defined fields are supported by debian policy ยง5.7. Here an example how this could look like for the mplayer package:
Source: mplayer Section: graphics Priority: extra Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Media Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Standards-Version: 3.6.2 Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3), libncurses5-dev, libesd0-dev, liblircclient-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, libvorbis-dev, libsdl1.2-dev, sharutils, libasound2-dev (>= 1.0.1), liblzo-dev, gawk, libjpeg62-dev, libaudiofile-dev, libsmbclient-dev, libxv-dev, libpng3-dev, libungif4-dev, libcdparanoia0-dev, libxvidcore4-dev, libdv-dev, liblivemedia-dev (>= 2004.05.01), libfreetype6-dev, em8300-headers, libgl1-mesa-dev | libgl-dev, libdvdread-dev, libdts-dev, libtheora-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev | libglu-dev, libartsc0-dev, libfontconfig-dev, libxxf86dga-dev, libxinerama-dev, libxxf86vm-dev, liblame-dev, libxvmc-dev, libggi2-dev, ttf-bitstream-vera, libmpcdec-dev, libspeex-dev, libfribidi-dev, libfaac-dev, sed (>= 4.0), libaa1-dev, libcaca-dev, libx264-dev (>= 1:0.cvs20060720) XS-Source-Origin: http://debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0-rc1-0.1.dsc Package: mplayer Architecture: any ... You see that the first paragraph was appended with the URL of the package on which this package is based. I propose that the content of this field is either and URL specifying the location where this source originated. If the package was packaged originally in ubuntu, I'd suggest placing the magic string 'ubuntu' here like this: XS-Source-Origin: ubuntu Please note that this is only needed if there is a package with the same name in debian, which we do NOT consider as merge source. Examples for such packages include: wine, gajim, mplayer and perhaps (many) more! This technique is used BTW by python packages as well for specifying the supported python version (Field XS-Python-Versions). The effect of XS-Source-Origin is that the field Source-Origin gets in the .dsc file and in the output of apt-cache show $pkg, and we can use the tool grep-dctrl to filter those package. I expect that MoM can be instructed to ignore package with this field. Thanks for your attention. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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