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Debian repositories contain an (optional) metadata field "Origin" in the Release file.
Coincidentally it contains "Debian" for Debian upstream and "Ubuntu" for Ubuntu.
Other providers are supposed to add their own name there.
So this seems like the correct source for the "vendor" PURL qualifier.
The
deb
type says:However, there are scenarios where the vendor is neither of debian or ubuntu, such as when installing a package from a third-party deb repo, such as https://bell-sw.com/pages/repositories/#apt-repository-deb-based-linux-distributions
The packages from such a repository might be functional on both debian/ubuntu, and the "vendor" distinction might not be appropriate.
deb
type for such usecases? It is unclear right now.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: