On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:43:59PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:47:07AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > Actually, it was pointed more to the way things are getting covered up > > as dists move towards the black box approach. Not that easier isn't > > better in many/most cases, but it strikes me that an easy to follow > > trail back to the root of many black box items could be put into the > > box itself. E.g. in the "about" part of any help system: "This > > program modifies the foo files found in bar directory..." > > Maybe this should become official Debian policy. > I don't think it should. That is why every single Debian package includes a README.Debian file in /usr/share/doc/<pkg-name>. This should document any deviations between the Debian version and the upstream version and anything else specific to the Debian package. Besides, this is much more standard (not every program has a GUI or an about box), and is already Debian policy. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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