Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:07:02PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> On 22-08-2010, Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr> wrote:
[...]
> > What is the reason to mandate a special field or comment in the META
> > field when it is created by debian? We are patching sources all the time
> > both for end user applications and develpment packages, without attaching
> > an extra warning sign. What makes META files so special that warrants
> > an exception to that rule?
> >
>
> Whenever you patch the source, IMHO, you limit the patch to:
> - fix the build system to make it compile on Debian (source -> binary
> package, new OCaml version)
> - fix security bugs
Certainly not. We do add features (I am speaking here of debian packages
in general, not only of ocaml libraries), and we fix things that are
broken.
-Ralf.
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