Re: Bug#549910: debian-policy: Specify requirement in terms of upgradeability, interface stability
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 07 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
>> BTW I find no reference in policy about the NEWS.Debian file. It would
>> nice to require to document (at last for one stable release) all (also
>> user visibe API/ABI) incompatibilities in such files.
> It is a goos practice, yes. Seems to me that that indicates it
> belongs to the developers reference?
Since NEWS.Debian is a file with a defined syntax that's parsed by other
programs, I think Policy would be an appropriate place to document the
syntax and intended use. Specific details on when it is or isn't
appropriate to put something in that file is probably more a devref thing.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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