Bug#594274: debian-policy: Don't track generated README documents in VCS
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 03:50:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> > Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>
> >> If that's no longer a concern, I can remove the generated files and
> >> build them from debian/rules by default.
>
> > (And add ‘emacs’ to ‘Build-Depends-Indep’, I assume.)
>
> > I don't know for whom it was a concern. How will we know if those
> > concerns are now addressed?
>
> Bill, do you mind if we make Emacs a build requirement for Policy for the
> *.org files that are in there right now? I think you were the one who
> expressed concerns previously about the org files.
emacs and org-mode I think.
I do not care as long as all needed packages are listed in the Build-Depends field,
but Process.org and README.org are 600 lines total, so we should just convert them
to debiandoc-sgml.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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