On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:05:10AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Dear policy list, > during various NMU, it happened to me that the maintainer of the NMUed > package reply with "thanks a lot, next time please also commit your > changes to our VCS, which is writable by all DDs". > > While we do have a place where to describe the location of a VCS (the > Vcs-* headers), we in fact have no place, AFAICT, where the developer > can describe her preferences in how/who/when/.. committing to that VCS > is indeed welcome. > > In the past I've found packages which does use README.source for that > and apparently Charles (Cc-ed) already tried to advance such a > proposal. In essence, it would just boil down to amend the description > of the purpose of README.source in Policy to also cover this. > > What's your take on that?
What happen if the package does not have a README.source ? Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
