Status of the debian-maintainer-field spec ?

Adam Conrad adconrad at ubuntu.com
Mon Feb 12 06:20:18 GMT 2007


Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> Yes, but we all know that most Debian packages that weren't rebuilt
> since OM was introduced won't be rebuilt before the feisty release.
> Maybe we should consider uploading buildX versions for all of them...

Which would needlessly explode mirror size, just for the addition of a
control field.  Having things slowly change over time as packages change
is fine and is, in fact, the Debian Way, so I'm sure they understand.

... Adam




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