On Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:14:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > What I'm wondering is: > > - depending on debian-policy would be another dependency, and the > > debian-policy only installs files to /usr/share/doc which is not > > guaranteed to exist; and there's also no easily parsable file there; > If it would be helpful for debian-policy to ship this information directly > in the package, that should be relatively easy to do. Feel free to open a > bug against debian-policy. I'm not sure if Sean would see any problems > that I'm not seeing, but I personally have no objection to Policy starting > to install some machine-readable information about Policy in files in > /usr/share/debian-policy in a documented format.
I think having the data provided by debian-policy (in the package, and maybe-for other purposes-also on the website) would be an excellent idea, thanks for the offer. I'm waiting for Dominique's thoughts before cloning/etc. this bug. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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