Santiago Vila wrote: > AOL. ftpmaster should follow the established rules of debian-policy to > create new policy rules, instead of arbitrarily imposing such new rules > on maintainers without even telling them where the new rules are written. James Troup wrote: > Off the top of my head and in the recent past I've seen: > > o A source package with multiple (> 6) binaries and each one was > packaged as a separate deb for no particular reason. > > o A 7k xmms plugin in a separate binary package (with no other files > modulo the policy mandated ones). > > o 8k/22k (deb/installed) -examples package split out of a large C++ > lib<foo>-dev package. > > o A separate -demo package with a single 2k file (modulo policy mandated). > > o A separate -doc package with 17 files and a grand total 70k of docs. Yeah, it's surely a shame that James rejected those fine policy-compliant packages. -- see shy jo
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