Packaging question with regards to debian/changelog

[Daniel Miles]

> From: Soren Hansen <soren at ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Packaging question with regards to debian/changelog
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:44:58PM +1200, Daniel Miles wrote:
> > I'm working on a PPA archive on launchpad for the smplayer media
> > player. I would like to support multiple distributions of Ubuntu (at
> > the moment, dapper and feisty, adding gutsy after release). The debian
> > packaging guide says that the correct way to do this is to have the
> > changelog in this form, where multiple distributions are separated
> > with a space:
>
> Do you have a reference to that? It sounds quite odd to me.

Sorry, and further to my previous email, the footnote of the section I quoted 
reads, with regard to the distribution field:

"In a .changes file or parsed changelog output this contains the 
(space-separated) name(s) of the distribution(s) where this version of the 
package should be installed. Valid distributions are determined by the 
archive maintainers"

- DJM