Bug#543417: README.source patch system documentation requirements considered harmful
Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:
> If we had a generic set of packaging types that we could agree didn't
> need to be documented in README.source (perhaps in devref, with pointers
> to the actual documentation?), the README.source could be reserved for
> things which actually were unusual, and would obviate most of the
> concerns raised.
Yeah, that's where I'm coming from as well. After now having some
experience with this policy, it's not feeling particularly useful to have
people copy over some boilerplate if they're using quilt or dpatch in the
normal and expected way.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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