package: debian-policy
severity: wishlist
version: 3.8.3.0
Forwarding a issue discussed on -policy to not forget the wishlist
request. There appear to be consensus on the need of this, whereas the
actual text still need to be fleshed out. The thread where this has been
discussed starts at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2009/12/msg00051.html
Cheers.
----- Forwarded message from Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> -----
Dear policy list,
during various NMU, it happened to me that the maintainer of the NMUed
package reply with "thanks a lot, next time please also commit your
changes to our VCS, which is writable by all DDs".
While we do have a place where to describe the location of a VCS (the
Vcs-* headers), we in fact have no place, AFAICT, where the developer
can describe her preferences in how/who/when/.. committing to that VCS
is indeed welcome.
In the past I've found packages which does use README.source for that
and apparently Charles (Cc-ed) already tried to advance such a
proposal. In essence, it would just boil down to amend the description
of the purpose of README.source in Policy to also cover this.
What's your take on that?
Please Cc-me on replies as I'm not subscribed to -policy.
Cheers.
----- Forwarded message from Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> -----
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:56:19 +0900
From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
To: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
Cc: 545515@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#545515: mgltools-gle: diff for NMU
version 1.5.4.cvs.20090603-1.1
Le Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:26:47PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Thanks for the NMU. I commited your changes to Debian Med SVN. BTW,
> > every DD can commit to this SVN as well - so feel free to do this in
> > some similar case at your preference.
> >
> > Kind regards and thanks for catching this
>
> Noted, thanks (I kinda wish there is a standardized way to explain this
> to NMUers ...), and thanks for having incorporated my changes this
> quick!
Hi Stefano,
I proposed debian/README.source some time ago, but it proved controversial as
debian/README.source is a README for the source package only, which excludes
the VCS that contains it:
4.14 Source package handling: debian/README.source
…
debian/README.source may also include any other information that would be
helpful to someone modifying the source package. Even if the package doesn't
fit the above description, maintainers are encouraged to document in a
debian/README.source file any source package with a particularly complex or
unintuitive source layout or build system (for example, a package that builds
the same source multiple times to generate different binary packages).
Nevertheless, if you think the idea is worth the discussion, I can transfer
it on debian-policy@l.d.o and propose to extend the purpose of README.source
Have a nice day,
--
Charles
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sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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