Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy

[Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org>]

On 21-08-2010, Florent Monnier <monnier.florent@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le samedi 21 août 2010 20:36:59, Sylvain Le Gall a écrit :
>> On 21-08-2010, Florent Monnier <monnier.florent@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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:
>> 
>> No!
>> 
>> Please give me examples of what you expect and how origin = "Debian"
>> differs from a comment. The main point for me is to let end user (i.e
>> ocam dev. that uses debian) know that some META has been written by
>> ocaml team and hence can differ in other distro. A META provided by
>> upstream doesn't need anything, in this case.
>
> Please forgive me for my poor explanation,
> I have no preference for a comment over a tag, I don't really care,
> the only thing I mean is that it would be nice if we had one keyword in this 
> string that a user can expect to find whatever distro he's using.
>
> For example if we use:
> origin="packaging::Debian"
> origin="packaging::Mandriva"
>
> then one can get the list of the added META with this single command:
> $ grep -l packaging `ocamlc -where`/*/META
>
> But if we use:
> origin="Debian"
> origin="Mandriva"
> then the user has to know which distro he's using first, before to grep it as a 
> keyword.
> and in this example you can't use "origin" as a keyword too, because you can't 
> prevent an upstream to use an "origin" field too, for example:
> origin="janest"
> OK one can grep "origin" to display its content, but not *filter* the META files 
> that come from packagers.
>
> I hope what I mean is clearer now, is it?
>

Yes it is.

I propose something like:

origin = "debian-packagers"

or 

createdby = "debian-packagers"

BTW, it is a variable so there is no point of having 
origin = X
origin = Y

(the second override the first). Do I miss something or should this
value only hold one team/packager ?

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall