Le samedi 21 août 2010 18:46:59, Sylvain Le Gall a écrit : > 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).
Yes, but if the upstream puts: origin = "Debian" and if mdv puts origin = "Mandriva" it becomes harder to filter from only one grep command (and in a generic way over different distros) which comes from packagers. Do you understand? -- Regards Florent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
