Bug#562254: README.source to describe VCS-related info (e.g. commit rights)

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

merge 495233 562254
thanks

Le Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:08:11AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
> 
> 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.

Hello everybody,

I just realised that this was proposed in 2008 by Lucas Nussbaum.

  http://bugs.debian.org/495233

Cheers,

-- 
Charles