Bug#514919: Removing support for uploads to multiple distributions
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> Agreed.
>
> In the long term, I would like to move all the documentation about the
> syntax into dpkg itself and have the policy document how Debian uses
> dpkg rather than documenting dpkg itself.
>
> It's already in our TODO list to document the format of .dsc, .changes
> and debian/control.
Personally, I think it would be a mistake to move the specification of
file formats into dpkg documentation and out of Policy. It's one thing to
move to dpkg documentation things that only dpkg cares about, but Policy
is in essence the standards body and interface specification for the
Debian packaging format, whereas dpkg is just one implementation.
Currently it's the only implementation, but I think breaking down the
distinction between specification and implementation is a bad thing in the
long run.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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