Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed
Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> writes:
> On 15/08/08 at 11:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org> writes:
>>> I think the better way is do it similar to copyright: for common
>>> patch/build system we should include only a link to the relative
>>> document. Maybe on a common package (build essential or dpkg-dev) or
>>> on patch system package (but in this case we should push stronger the
>>> maintainer to include the relevant informations).
>> Which is what Policy already says, and quilt, for example, provides
>> such a document for README.source to link to. So I don't think Policy
>> should be changed here.
> But that won't work if we want to include more info in README.source.
Why not? I would think you could include whatever information you want
before or after the pointer to the standard quilt documentation.
> What about moving to a machine-parseable format, such as:
>
> Patch-system: quilt
> Patch-system-doc: /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source
I think that's kind of pointless for human-readable, human-targetted
documention. Why would machines need to parse README.source?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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