Re: Packaging Manual is policy

[Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>]

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

> > 3.2.5. `debian/files'
> >  Must not ship in a shipped source package
> 
> I tend to disagree this needs to be in policy. 

This should be in policy - it causes no end of problems for people doing
binary only recompilations on other archs.

>From the other things you agree on, package name formats, description
field formats etc it seems pretty inconsistent to me to have any objection
to the debian/files point. It is more than informational, it is a necessary
point.

Regards,

        Martin.