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Re: phasing out override files



Richard Braakman wrote:
> I think something much simpler would work:  Use a special value "-"
> for sections and priorities that should be taken from the package
> instead of from the override file.  Then do regular scans for values
> that can be replaced with "-".  (The "-" is already used in the changes
> file format for missing information of this type.)

Ok. Seems like a better plan than my off-the-cuff idea.

> This requires changing dpkg-gencontrol, and doing it with sections
> would take significant work on dinstall because the section is also
> the directory name.

Yeah. If the ftp folks agree this is a worthy idea, I don't mind helping
with that. Although I've never touched dinstall before, and I'm not sure
I want to start. ;-)

I'm mostly interested in seeing if people agree this is a good idea at
this point though, it's not exactly urgent to implement it.

-- 
see shy jo


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