Re: Deficiencies in Debian
> . Policy changes
>
> It is unclear how policy changes affect packages. The changelog
> within debian-policy*.deb is (imho) not detailed enough to tell Joe
> Clueless Maintainer what he needs to change in his package other
> than s/2\.4\.0\.0/3.0.0.0/ in debian/control to create a package
> complient with the current policy.
>
> It's even unclear which policy packages have to support for potato.
>
> It's also unclear what will happen to packages that are not policy
> complient.
As far as non policy-compliant packages, they inherit bugs. Packages with
bugs of greater importance than 'Normal' get yanked from the distribution
upon release, IIRC. Of course, this is hearsay.
The last two points I can't deal with, but the first I can. I will volunteer
time to writing a script that will diff standards versions, and display them
with changes highlighted. Perhaps I could set this up to yank context in and
out...
What would people like to see something like this in? Stylized HTML?
elisp? If it's not something too exotic, I could start on it right away. My
personal preference would be stylized HTML, because then we could run it on
one of debian's webservers for all to see.
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