Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy

[Florent Monnier <monnier.florent@gmail.com>]

Le dimanche 22 août 2010 01:12:58, Sylvain Le Gall a écrit :
[...]
> > For example if we use:
> > origin="packaging::Debian"
> > origin="packaging::Mandriva"
> > 
> > then one can get the list of the added META with this single command:
> > $ grep -l packaging `ocamlc -where`/*/META
> > 
> > But if we use:
> > origin="Debian"
> > origin="Mandriva"
> > then the user has to know which distro he's using first, before to grep
> > it as a keyword.
> > and in this example you can't use "origin" as a keyword too, because you
> > can't prevent an upstream to use an "origin" field too, for example:
> > origin="janest"
> > OK one can grep "origin" to display its content, but not *filter* the
> > META files that come from packagers.
> > 
> > I hope what I mean is clearer now, is it?
> 
> Yes it is.
> 
> I propose something like:
> 
> origin = "debian-packagers"
> 
> or
> 
> createdby = "debian-packagers"

I find the string "debian-packagers" fine!

About the fields names "origin" and "createdby", isn't there a risk that 
someone believes that the all lib is provided by debian?
Indeed if you read the field "description" this field is related to the lib, not 
related to the META file.
So it should maybe be made clear to users that origin or createdby is related 
to the META file and not the all lib.

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Regards
Florent