Re: Added README.source to our group policy.
Le Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:39:13PM +0100, Daniel Leidert a écrit :
>
> How many 0-day NMUs did you observe (except in release times)?
Good point: I over-reacted.
Two this year, the second one being after the lengthy disucssion of the DEP
(Debian Enhancment Proposal) where all possible wording improvements were
negociated to make clear that contacting the maintainer and uploading to
DELAYED are important things. So definitely it is not a big issue, but that
people willingfully ignore this is making me angry.
> But README.source
> IMHO is the wrong place. Putting such information into it, will make it
> harder to get the really necessary information about the source from
> this file.
Right. This file is for all users, not only the persons who upload to the
Debian archive. I personnally will put the stuff in README.NMU files, whith the
sole purpose of screaming loudly "Can't you read?" next time somebody tries to
"help" me when I am obviously active.
I just commited the following patch. I think that it is much better.
Index: policy.xml
===================================================================
--- policy.xml (revision 2667)
+++ policy.xml (working copy)
@@ -279,15 +279,7 @@
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title><filename>debian/README.source</filename></title>
- <para>This file is recommended by the Policy (<ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource";>§ 4.14</ulink>) from version 3.8.0 for documenting source package handling. You can start from the following template, and add other necessary informations about patch systems and sources in other format than gzipped tar achive:
- <literallayout>
-This package is maintained by the Debian Med packaging team. Please refer to
-our group policy if you would like to commit to our Subversion repository. All
-Debian developpers have write acces to it.
-
-http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
- </literallayout>
- </para>
+ <para>This file is recommended by the Policy (<ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource";>§ 4.14</ulink>) from version 3.8.0 for documenting source package handling. Please follow the recommendation. For instance, this file is needed when we use a patch system, when the upstream sources are in another format than gzipped tar achive, when we repack the sources,…</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
Thanks for the input, and have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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