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Re: A question about uploading to "frozen"



skud@netizen.com.au wrote:
> > Package: packaging-manual
> > Version: 3.1.1.1
> 
> As a hopeful package maintainer (I want to do some work on dpkg-perl), I
> was looking around for the docco that would get me started on packaging.
> I couldn't find it until this thread popped up.
> 
> Is there any naming convention for debian-specific documentation
> packages?  I would have expected such things to be called debian-blah,
> similar to debian-policy.

I would say debian-foo is the convention, which packaging-manual
violates. Probably for historical reasons.

Of course, there are other departures too, such as the
developers-reference package.

-- 
see shy jo



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