Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy
Le samedi 21 août 2010 18:46:59, Sylvain Le Gall a écrit :
> On 21-08-2010, Florent Monnier <monnier.florent@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Le samedi 21 août 2010 12:53:22, Sylvain Le Gall a écrit :
> >> On 15-08-2010, Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org> wrote:
> >> > On 15-08-2010, Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr> wrote:
> >> >> My modifications in the policy mostly concern the chapter
> >> >> generalities where I have refactored some stuff, to some extend the
> >> >> chapter on prog packaging, and to an even lesser extend the chapter
> >> >> on libary packaging. Please have a look and comment on the list, or
> >> >> modify directly in git for small modifications.
> >> >
> >> > I would like to discuss the section about META files in
> >> > chapter-libpack.xml
> >> >
> >> > We had a discussion with Mehdi about the right location of the META,
> >> > we (pkg-ocaml-maint) write in place of the upstream.
> >> >
> >> > I tend to think that putting them into METAS/ is a good way to show
> >> > that this META is not one from upstream (i.e. distro specific).
> >>
> >> OK, as I am the only one to support this POV, it seems this is not a
> >> good thing.
> >>
> >> Ralf, can you add a note about the "META" explaining that if we create a
> >> META on Debian side, we should store it into the library directory?
> >
> > IMO the idea of putting a comment to the added METAs is good
> > so then someone who care about writing a Makefile that will work
> > on a pristine install can do it
> >
> > Also maybe we could use the same comment in several distro
> > so that users can use the same grep command without needing to care
> > which distro they use.
>
> We could even define a variable for this e.g. add:
>
> origin = "Debian"
>
> in the META file. This is better than a comment: you can grep it and you
> can programmatically access it through findlib. It is also a construct
> allowed by META syntax (i.e. you can define useless variables).
Yes, but if the upstream puts:
origin = "Debian"
and if mdv puts
origin = "Mandriva"
it becomes harder to filter from only one grep command (and in a generic way
over different distros) which comes from packagers.
Do you understand?
--
Regards
Florent
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