Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy
On 24/09/13 at 16:15 +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le 24/09/2013 15:58, Paul Wise a écrit :
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Dominik George wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry to disapoint you, but you should read *all of* DPM before passing
> >> a package for upload to a sponsor or to mentors.
> >
> > I don't think we have never expected that new maintainers read policy
> > before creating a package.
>
> Hi,
>
> I disagree with that: I expect prospective package maintainers to read
> and follow the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide", which states:
>
> "The following is the very important documentation which you should
> read along with this document:
> - debian-policy [...]
> - developers-reference - [...]"
On the other hand, developers-reference mainly documents procedures that
are only applicable to DD (or marginaly, to DM). I don't think that it's
such a useful read for prospective maintainers.
Lucas
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