On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:18:09AM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > > Surely this is documented in the Policy or the Developers' Reference? > > > > I thought the same thing. Before I replied to this post, I tried to look > > up > > a reference, and I was amazed that there wasn't one. The FAQ was the only > > place that mentioned it, and all that it said was that a native package > > had > > no .diff.gz. > > It looks (from that and your other email) that there is a discrepancy. "no > .diff.gz" and "which have been written especially for Debian" are not the > same thing. I think "which have been written especially for Debian" should > be replaced with something like "which can be built for Debian without any > modification," where one may want to make "built for Debian" a bit more > explicit eventually (e.g. to mention that the result of the build is Debian > packages). The definition of "native" is "Has no .diff.gz". The intended use of "native" is "written specifically for Debian and is not useful in other situations". These appear to be confused in the documentation and should probably be clarified. The discussion about what is wrong with making external packages native is reiterated once every few months, and I'm not going to repeat it here. Search the archives. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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