Bug#105535: debian-policy should not be concerned with the internal structure of a source package

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

    Joey> This section used to be part of the debian packaging
    Joey> manual. Having documentation available to allow by-hand
    Joey> unpacking of a source package is pretty important from a
    Joey> security and general utility point of view.  It does not, of
    Joey> course, belong in policy.

I agree the text does not belong in policy, but I believe that we
should as a matter of policy adopt a particular source and binary
packaging format and that format should be documented somewhere.  We
could alternatively say that whatever dpkg-dev handles is by
definition a Debian source package.  The disadvantage of doing this is
that then we don't have an interface from which to write other tools
that manipulate source packages.