Re: Questions about "Winding down my Debian involvement"
* Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> [2019-03-20 17:18]:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > At the very least, we should find out why people don't use standard
> > tooling like debhelper, improve these tools and nudge people towards
> > them.
>
> How would you approach this nudging?
(I haven't looked at rsync and this is a general reply.)
First, find out *why* it's non-standard. Mabye there are good
technical reasons. If so, solutions can be found (e.g. improvements
to debhelper). Maybe it's a case of "it works" and the developer
doesn't want to spend the time to change? If so, you could provide a
patch. Maybe there is unfamiliarity or doubts about debhelper? In
thast case, some explanations or illustrations might help. etc
> > We should definitely recommend it. The question is whether we should
> > go further than that.
>
> Where should we recommend it? What do you think about a "Debian
> Development Policy" (the more I think about that term which I used
> in my last mail the more I like it)?
I think was thinking the Debian Developer's Reference would be the
appropriate place.
I also like the term "Debian Development Policy" fwiw.
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Martin Michlmayr
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