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Re: [Joerg Jaspert] Description-less packages file

To: James Westby <jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 07:59:20 -0400
Cc: launchpad-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ubuntu-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:36:23PM -0400, James Westby wrote:
> This change will likely affect some people in Ubuntu.
> 
> We may want to make the change for Ubuntu itself, but first we should
> make sure that all our systems pulling from Debian still work.

We made this change in Ubuntu 11.10.

At least the mass syncer doesn't care about extended package
descriptions.  I don't know about gina.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx]

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[Joerg Jaspert] Description-less packages file
From: James Westby, 2011-11-04