Problematic debian control field names?

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Tue Jul 8 17:40:42 BST 2008


On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 21:29 +0200, Sav vas wrote:
> Hi, I've made up an sqlite database of all the packages in the ubuntu
> repository.
> The importing ended up being useful for detecting field typos,
> something like a debian control field name "janitor" :)
> 
> I found some typos and problematic debian control fields during that import:
> I've reported all that I could find, but I wasn't sure about the following:
> 

You mean you filed bug reports against the packages? Great!

> Python-Versions (should it be Python-Version?)
> Python-Runtime (should it be Python-Version?)
> 

Not sure about these ones.

> X-Original-Maintainer (should it be XSBC-Original-Maintainer?)
> Original-Maintainer (should it be XSBC-Original-Maintainer?)
> 

If you are looking at debian/control then you are correct,
they should be XSBC-Original-Maintainer

Thanks for taking a look at this.

James




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