On 21-08-2010, Florent Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: > Le samedi 21 août 2010 12:53:22, Sylvain Le Gall a écrit : >> On 15-08-2010, Sylvain Le Gall <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 15-08-2010, Ralf Treinen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My modifications in the policy mostly concern the chapter generalities >> >> where I have refactored some stuff, to some extend the chapter on prog >> >> packaging, and to an even lesser extend the chapter on libary packaging. >> >> Please have a look and comment on the list, or modify directly in git >> >> for small modifications. >> > >> > I would like to discuss the section about META files in >> > chapter-libpack.xml >> > >> > We had a discussion with Mehdi about the right location of the META, we >> > (pkg-ocaml-maint) write in place of the upstream. >> > >> > I tend to think that putting them into METAS/ is a good way to show that >> > this META is not one from upstream (i.e. distro specific). >> >> OK, as I am the only one to support this POV, it seems this is not a >> good thing. >> >> Ralf, can you add a note about the "META" explaining that if we create a >> META on Debian side, we should store it into the library directory? > > IMO the idea of putting a comment to the added METAs is good > so then someone who care about writing a Makefile that will work > on a pristine install can do it > > Also maybe we could use the same comment in several distro > so that users can use the same grep command without needing to care > which distro they use. >
We could even define a variable for this e.g. add: origin = "Debian" in the META file. This is better than a comment: you can grep it and you can programmatically access it through findlib. It is also a construct allowed by META syntax (i.e. you can define useless variables). Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
