Bug#671009: debian-policy: does not mention debtags
Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I recently came across a package (casper) which included a "Tag:" field in
'apt-cache show' output. Obtaining the source showed this field in the
debian/control file, but there is no mention of "Tag:" field in the
Debian Policy.
After fruitless Googling, I asked on IRC and was pointed to:
http://wiki.debian.org/Debtags
... which provided the information I was looking for.
However, since "Tag:" is an optional binary package control file field
(like Depends, Essential, etc) and since it is used by packages in
stable Debian releases, surely this should be documented directly in the
Debian Policy manual? (or at the very least mentioned in passing to avoid
confusion)?
Kind regards,
James Hunt
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers precise-updates
APT policy: (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500, 'precise')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--
James Hunt
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