Re: inclusion of ocaml-policy
On Thursday 22 June 2006 15:58, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 12:02:51PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> > Right, it is, except that debian-policy is under tight control when it
> > comes to upgrades and probably it will be a pain to upgrade sub-policies
> > distributed with the debian-policy package.
>
> Fair enough, but history tells us that we don't need to update the
> debian policy very often. We survived with a really out of date policy
> for months and noone complained. Now we have a valuable document, but I
> doubt we will need to change it very often. Perhaps just rebuilding it
> from time to time would be good -- so that the version will get updated
> --, but if we manage to automate that in the rebuilding process of the
> debian-policy package I think we will be more than fine.
>
> > Better yet create a separate package which depends on debian-policy
> > and polulates /usr/share/doc/debian-policy wich the ocaml-polcy files.
>
> That would be a problem IMO. Stuff in debian-policy is, in my idea,
> considered *the* official packaging guide(s) of Debian. Having OCaml
> policy there would be a plus for us.
>
> Otherwise we can keep it in the ocaml package, I don't see the need to
> fork a ocaml policy package.
You have your points. I'd suggest to discuss 'where sub-policies belong to' in
debian-policy mailing list or we can file a bug against debian-policy to
clarify that issue, since the current paragraphs of #1.4, #11.9, #11.9 show
perl-policy as part debian-policy package and emacs-policy as a separate
package. I think that all sub-policies should obey same rules.
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