Bug#698030: debian-policy: document micro binary packages (udebs).
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Yet I'm getting a lot of resistance to the suggestion. Why? What am I
> missing?
I think it's perfectly reasonble, even quite valuable, to include a clear
statement in Policy that it doesn't cover udebs and they have their own
guidelines. I didn't realize there was a manual that documents them
(well, sort of; having looked at it, it doesn't really provide enough
information to make one). It would clearly be useful to link to that.
I don't think it's a good idea to bury that statement deep in the section
about control fields, in the description of an obscure field that (since
it is automatically generated by packaging software) most people are
unlikely to ever bother to read. Rather, I think we should make that
statement up-front, probably in section 1.1 where Policy already discusses
its scope.
It makes sense to me to add such a statement now and then circle back to
possibly document the details of udebs (and, if so, remove that statement)
at a later date when the d-i team has more time.
I certainly have no objections to getting that statement into Policy now
so that we don't release a new version with an additional mention of udebs
without having that statement.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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