Bug#658009: debian-policy: dpkg-buildpackage -rroot-command out of date
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> I think that it is a bit drastic. In the case of dpkg-buildpackage, I
> agree that we should not repeat information found in the manual page,
> but I like the short explanations on the purpose of each Dpkg helper
> tool.
We've been wanting to remove those appendices for a long time, actually.
While having a tour of dpkg helper tools is an interesting piece of
documentation to have, it seems pretty far afield of the point of Policy.
That stuff is left over from the old Packaging Manual, and I think if such
a tour is useful it would be better maintained as part of the dpkg
documentation.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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