Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:00:02PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> On 15-08-2010, Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > My modifications in the policy mostly concern the chapter generalities
> > where I have refactored some stuff, to some extend the chapter on prog
> > packaging, and to an even lesser extend the chapter on libary packaging.
> > Please have a look and comment on the list, or modify directly in git
> > for small modifications.
> >
>
> I would like to discuss the section about META files in
> chapter-libpack.xml
>
> We had a discussion with Mehdi about the right location of the META, we
> (pkg-ocaml-maint) write in place of the upstream.
>
> I tend to think that putting them into METAS/ is a good way to show that
> this META is not one from upstream (i.e. distro specific).
IMHO, putting stuff in non-standard directories in is not a good way to
convey messages to anyone. Users do not care, and upstream developers
should be contacted directly by us.
In Debian we should try to be as uniform as reasonably possible with the
packaging. I am OK with METAS as an exception for ocaml standard
libraries, but stowing away META files of library packages looks to
me just like confusing the users.
-Ralf.
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