Re: wishing minimal doc criteria for debian packages
Does no one want to comment this?
On 2017-07-23 10:16 <c.buhtz@posteo.jp> wrote:
> I am not sure if this list is the right one for this discussion.
> Please point me to the correct one.
>
> I am new to the development environment in Debian. I sometimes ran
> into inconvenience when I try to contribute to a package/project. And
> I realize that "Debian" hasn't such high quality criteria as I
> thought.
>
> A package should have this minimal informations
> - link/info about the related upstream project (website)
> - this should appear in the package source (e.g. README file) and in
> the Debian package Tracker
>
> This isn't much, isn't it? For some problems this is essential to
> contribute to a package. E.g. I need upstream to check if a problem is
> reported or fixed their. But sometimes this info is missing. And I
> don't want to waste the maintainers time and ressources to ask such
> simple questions: "Who is upstream?"
>
> A nice to have (for me a must have) would be that upstream have to
> provide a manpage. It should be up to the Debian staff to do the
> documentation for upstream! There is enough other more important work
> for Debian staff.
>
> What do you think?
>
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