On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 01:54:03PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > 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.
Yes, that seems to me like a good solution. If there are no objections until this evening I will add a sentence about that to the policy before uploading. -Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
