On 12/08/08 at 08:20 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:14:06AM -0300, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >After that, we can have a discussion about: > >- Should people be encouraged to commit the changes they make in an NMU > > to the package's Vcs? > >- Should people be encouraged to commit any change (not necessarily > > resulting in an upload) to the package's Vcs? > > How about just sneak in a recommendation to check debian/README.Source > for any hints about specific packaging routines to be aware of? > > Then each team can choose to mention there if NMU and/or any non-team > commits to their VCS is encouraged/discouraged, without the need for > concensus about it. I agree that it's a good idea to document this on a per-package basis, somehow. However, I don't think that it's the main purpose of debian/README.source (which is to document how to get the source of the package ready for editing). Whether to encourage direct commits is orthogonal to this, so maybe it should be documented elsewhere, to make it easier for big teams to deploy this "policy" in all their packages. (think of the perl team!) I think that the wider problem is: it's difficult to give meta-information about packages efficiently. Even if the perl team wanted to switch to the policy of encouraging direct commits, it would still take months/years until every package is marked as such. An external repository for meta-informations (similar to the overrides for section/priority) might be a better solution, so you could just say in it "if the maintainer is the perl team, then add the "direct commit encouraged" tag". Anyway, my position about this wrt DEP1 is that there's no real consensus about how to do that currently, and I really would like it to be done correctly, so we get full benefit from it. So I would prefer to seperate this discussion from DEP1 (hence the Subject change), commit DEP1's patch, and then work on another patch for this. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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