Bug#30036: OLD PROPOSAL] Including subpolicies (emacs, menu etc) in policy
The suggestion was to include all subpolicies in the debian-policy
package. At present there are two subpolicies included in the -policy
package: the menu policy and the mime policy.
Lots of good points were made both in favour and against this
proposal. The best compromise reached seems to be that once a
subpolicy matures it should be placed in the -policy package. The
alternative was that there could be a list of subpolicies in the
-policy package.
[Incidentally, I noticed that one of the arguments for having
everything in policy was only one place to look -- which I think is a
good argument, but another was having only one package to install --
which isn't: anyone who is going to do emacs package development is
going to have emacsen-common installed, after all.]
I would like to suggest that while subpolicies are still young, such
as the emacs policy (which still has a critical bug against it by
yours truly), they are listed in a "non-officially blessed" file
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/subpolicies.list, which would read
something like:
--------------------
This file lists sub-policy documents which are currently in the
process of being developed. They are currently the responsibility of
the respective package maintainers. Please direct bug reports about
these subpolicies to the relevant packages. In due course they will
be absorbed into the debian-policy package and gain the weight of
policy.
This list is provided for reference only and may not be complete.
Subpolicy Package Location
--------- ------- --------
Emacs policy emacsen-common /usr/doc/emacsen-common/
Perl policy perl-5.005-doc /usr/share/doc/perl-5.005-doc/
[Are there any others?]
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Finally, this procedure seems to be what is gradually happening
anyway, so I suggest we close this bug report.
Julian
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