On 05-09-2010, Ralf Treinen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:39:06PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > >> I think I now have a draft of an update of our policy. This work >> is simply a continuation of the work started by Sylvain who did already >> the splitting in policy and reference that we had discussed earlier. > >> git+ssh://git.debian.org//git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/dh-ocaml.git >> branch: policy-update > > I cannot see a consensus on the question of tagging debian-specific > META files that was brought up by Sylvain. Hence, I did not put > anything on this topic in the policy for now. >
Better than to have nothing, I think that we should use a comment at the beginning of the META file, when it has been written by a Debian packager: # This META file is delivered by the Debian distribution. version = ... description = ... This doesn't imply non-standard field and is at least an information about the fact upstream doesn't provide one. It is grep-able and you can even grep -E "^# This META File is delivered by the .* distribution\." which should at least partially satisfied F. Monnier. I think it is the most reasonnable way to do things. 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]
