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Hello,

On Sat 27 Oct 2018 at 02:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> On an entirely unrelated note (and probably a larger project than anyone
> will be able to tackle any time soon), I think it would be very helpful if
> we had some way of annotating what parts of Policy are just handled for
> you if you use debhelper in the normal way (perhaps with references to the
> tools involved).  Maybe with background shading or an icon or
> something?

Either of these would be fine.

> I think Policy needs to state all of the rules, including the ones
> implemented by other tools, but at the same time nearly everyone doing
> Debian packaging is using debhelper (either directly or indirectly),
> so it's a bit of a disservice to people to ask them to wade through a
> bunch of specifications for stuff that normally they don't and
> shouldn't think about.

Agreed.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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