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Bug#1114994: debian-policy: Remove obsolete reference to MSDOS-Filename field

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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 4.7.2.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi!

I've just pushed a change into dpkg's git targeting 1.23.0, removing
support for the MSDOS-Filename field. This has been widely obsolete
for a long time, and it has not been supported by pretty much anything
except some decaying support in dpkg.

The only current references to this field in codesearch.d.n, are
in apt (only for ordering purposes, no parsing or generation),
lintian (only in a data reference to the Debian Policy section name),
dpkg (which has now been removed), and debian-policy (the object of
this report :).

From the attached patch against debian-policy git HEAD:

,---
policy: Remove reference to MSDOS-Filename

This a relic from the past, where distributions had to possibly
support installation from MS-DOS systems, or transport binary packages
in FAT formatted media.

This has not been the case for a very long time. And front-ends like
apt do not even support handling MSDOS-Filename in repositories, and
VFAT support is wide-spread nowadays.

Support for this field is going to be removed from dpkg 1.23.0.

Ref: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=4610332047d2609fc26146024227f4a51de9d8f5
`---

Thanks,
Guillem

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Bug#1114994: debian-policy: Remove obsolete reference to MSDOS-Filename field Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2025-09-12 17:20 +0200
  Bug#1114994: debian-policy: Remove obsolete reference to MSDOS-Filename field Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-10-02 14:00 +0200
    Bug#1114994: debian-policy: Remove obsolete reference to MSDOS-Filename field Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2025-10-02 14:40 +0200
  Bug#1114994: debian-policy: Remove obsolete reference to MSDOS-Filename field Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2025-10-02 15:00 +0200

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