I am not sure if this list is the right one for this discussion. Please point me to the correct one.
I am new to the development environment in Debian. I sometimes ran into inconvenience when I try to contribute to a package/project. And I realize that "Debian" hasn't such high quality criteria as I thought. A package should have this minimal informations - link/info about the related upstream project (website) - this should appear in the package source (e.g. README file) and in the Debian package Tracker This isn't much, isn't it? For some problems this is essential to contribute to a package. E.g. I need upstream to check if a problem is reported or fixed their. But sometimes this info is missing. And I don't want to waste the maintainers time and ressources to ask such simple questions: "Who is upstream?" A nice to have (for me a must have) would be that upstream have to provide a manpage. It should be up to the Debian staff to do the documentation for upstream! There is enough other more important work for Debian staff. What do you think?
