Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:53:22AM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> 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?

Done:

    <para>
      If a library package creates its own subdirectory
      <filename>&ocaml-sys-dir;/package/</filename> then the META file
      should be stored in that directory.
    </para>

-Ralf.