Re: Policy ready to be edited

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:38:15PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:16:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Fine with me, altough if both are acceptable, then there is no reason a
> > package maintainer (or an upstream) may not decide to move the META file
> > there by default.
> 
> Ok
> 
> > In fact i don't understand what is the reasoning behind not choosing to
> > use a single directory only for debian package (and write it in the
> > policy) even if findlib does also accept META files in stdlib subdirs
> > for backward compatibility reasons.
> 
> Because is additional work imposed to maintainers with no real
> usefulness.

Ok, so let's add it in the policy as a not mandatory item or something
such.

Friendly,

Sven Luther