Ubuntu bug reporting (reportbug, dpkg origins)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 05:54:07PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:23:25AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:38:50AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > I would prefer to have that field in all ubuntu-modified package. That
> > > way at some point in the future we can use the Origin field instead of
> > > the archive location to distinguish between package versions.
> > 
> > That would create work for us, since it's an additional modified file to
> > merge, and one which changes rather often.  Perhaps we need a different way
> > to set the origin, such as a debian/origin file, which is more easily
> > automated and merged.
> 
> That would require modifying all packages rather than just a selection,
> which is a significantly more serious task than what we've undertaken so
> far. I would not like to see it undertaken lightly when other
> alternatives are available.

This would only apply to packages that we've already modified.

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 - mdz