Bug#543417: README.source patch system documentation requirements considered harmful

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> writes:

> Bill Allombert wrote:
>> 3) If a package is lacking debian/README.source, then one should expect
>> that the source is ready to be used. If it not the case, even an empty
>> debian/README.source is better than none.
>> 
>
> What would an empty README.source file mean?
>
> Cheers,

There is something special about the source. It is not just a plain
1.0, 3.0 or 3.0 (quilt) source where you can just edit files at will.
But since I'm too lazy to document what is different you need to dig
into the rules file to understand what is going on.

(not my proposal but my understanding of it)

MfG
        Goswin