If there's a growing list of boolean control fields, isn't it the
indication that some sort of tagging system might make more sense?
Instead of three lines:
XB-Popcon-Reports: no
Rules-Requires-Root: yes
Pants-Need-Washing: yes
The same package could use a single line:
Tags: no-popcon-reports, rules-needs-root, pants-need-washing
(aside: by default rules doesn't need root... that would make one not- very-useful line less in so many packages!)
Some of our tools might provide easy queries to the feature:
$ apt-cache has-tag rules-needs-root my-beautiful-package
$ apt-cache list-tags my-beautiful-package
First, strictly speaking it's not boolean, at least until #975637 is implemented.If there's a growing list of boolean control fields, isn't it the indication that some sort of tagging system might make more sense?
Instead of three lines:
XB-Popcon-Reports: no
Rules-Requires-Root: yes
Pants-Need-Washing: yes
The same package could use a single line:
Tags: no-popcon-reports, rules-needs-root, pants-need-washing
ACK.
(aside: by default rules doesn't need root... that would make one not- very-useful line less in so many packages!)
I'd like to stress this! If "rules-needs-root: no" would be default
the majority of packages could be build. So why not making this the
default and just specify
rules-needs-root: yes
if needed?
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