Sean Whitton: > 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. >
FTR, I would be happy if the solution was not specific to "debhelper" in the long term. In particular, there is a world of difference between "debhelper", "cdbs with debhelper", "dh-style debhelper", and "dhmk-style 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. > Indeed - and accordingly, it is not a regression. :) Thanks, ~Niels
