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

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:33:09AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:25, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I'm not sure why Maintainer: makes sense as a for-setup.ini field given
>>our stated policies.
>
>It doesn't have to go into setup.ini - I was simply stating my
>confusion about inventing a new syntax, when one already exists.

As you mentioned, inilex.l already parses the Maintainer: field.
I don't know why setup.exe would need this functionality.