hi, just a minor addition...
On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 01:10:50PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I see this as part of a long trend in Policy maintenance. Originally, in > part due to its origins in a world that had far fewer tools, Debian Policy > (by way of the Packaging Manual) was a fairly comprehensive guide to > everything that went into creating a Debian package from the ground up. > With only that one document, in theory you could work out how to create a > valid Debian package from first principles and common UNIX tools. > > Over time, it has stopped being that, for a variety of reasons. One major > reason is that the tools have both become much better and more universal, > and the underlying tools have their own documentation. [...] when I've read that paragraph I was thinking about documenting dgit and/or tag2upload or really any tool in devref... :) - but that wasn't the reason I've started this reply... > In a world in which Policy is not keeping up with very long-standing > changes (triggers, multiarch) that we have not found the time to document > properly [...] which was this: while it's true that policy hasn't properly been documenting multiarch since 2014 (sigh..), since 2025 there's is now a patch written by Jochen, Josch, Helmut & myself in #749826 which has been reviewed by Sean once and which after addressing those remarks now awaits a another review by Sean. So, soon (tm!) multiarch will be documented in policy! \o/ Someone (else) wanting to help could probably review the following three bugs and forcemerge (or not) them with #749826: #650974 [debian-policy] Make Policy references to /usr/lib multiarch-aware #684672 [debian-policy] document multiarch tuple definitions #687900 [debian-policy] document multiarch And then, finally, https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch and https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation should be updated to reflect that multiarch has finally been documented in debian-policy! Hooray! -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ I don't want to see your smile. I want to see your intelligence, compassion, integrity, and consideration. (@1goodtern)
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
