Hello Niels, On Sun 28 Oct 2018 at 02:22PM GMT, Niels Thykier wrote: > I think I agree with your suggestion of shading policy requirements that > are already covered by common tools. Well, more specifically debhelper. > At the moment, I am hesitant as to whether I should second Sean's text > as it is or point out that text fails to handle cross-building[1] (note > the cross building issue is not a regression). > On one front, it would be technically correct - on the other front, I > fear most maintainers will be overloaded by irrelevant details that is > already handled for them. At present Policy does not require crossbuilding support. So while it would be nice to include details of how to properly support crossbuilding, it's not as though we're contradicting another requirement in Policy. So it seems like including the crossbuilding details would be a separate bug. -- Sean Whitton
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