Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy

[Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org>]

On 15-08-2010, Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org> 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).
>

OK, as I am the only one to support this POV, it seems this is not a
good thing.

Ralf, can you add a note about the "META" explaining that if we create a
META on Debian side, we should store it into the library directory?

Thanks,
Sylvain Le Gall