[Rpm-metadata] Debian metadata (was Re: format misc)

Darrin Thompson darrint at progeny.com
Tue Oct 7 12:53:31 UTC 2003


seth vidal wrote:
>> - For logical or, I've added a new <orentry> tag that can contain
>><entry> tags.  If anyone has a better idea for representing this, I'm
>>all ears.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what to do with that.
> 
> do the orentries only exist for suggests? If so then that is more reason
> to put suggests inside format.

Orentries can exist in a number of places, including Depends.

For some gory and perhaps even related details see:

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

I think suggests should probably be put in a namespace, but I'll 
elaborate in another mail.

-- 
Darrin Thompson
Progeny





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