Bug#598645: debian-policy: Delegate deb(5) format description to the man page (was: Switch appendix ...)

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 12:53:51 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Thanks Guillem for your patches.  After the quick exchange with Russ this week
> on this list,

Yeah, being able work on the appendices piecemeal will make it easier,
otherwise it gets difficult to see what's done and what's pending, as
long as the incremental changes are valid by themselves.

> I agree to apply all of them except the one removing sections.
> For the moment I would prefer to replace them by stubs.  Would that be fine for
> you ?  In that case, no need to send an updated patch, I alredy have a branch
> ready where that change is done.

It would be ok I guess, better than the current situation, although
I don't really see the point in that. Those sections will end up being
removed at some point anyway, that's why I updated the initial section
to point to the dpkg man pages if any was missing, and as long as they
do not get renumbered (something I took care of), that should not
introduce confusion.

Also, as an aside, I don't think any section should be removed, before
the information therein has been moved to a correct place, like dpkg
documentation, devref, maint-guide or the main policy itself, etc.

Thanks,
Guillem