non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Pack ages List, 2003-11-22)

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 10:32, Daniel Reed wrote:
> On 2003-11-25T20:53+1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> ) I'm not sure why this is "non-setup" information. Both binary only (no
> ) source: entry for a package), and Maintainer are setup.ini fields.
> 
> Were you suggesting using Maintainer: and relying on setup to ignore it?
> (Neither http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup-2.249.2.ini.html nor
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html seem to define a
> Maintainer: field.)

See inilex.l and iniparse.y. Maintainer is fully parsed, in the manner
that it appears in debian Sources list files.

The rest does make sense as not-for-setup.ini stuff.

Rob

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