2014-05-05 21:31 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>: > Quoting Emilien Klein (2014-05-05 20:57:39) >> 2014-05-05 18:59 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>: >>> Quoting Emilien Klein (2014-05-05 12:16:25) >>>> 2014-05-05 11:07 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>: >>> >>> [skipping parts on who said what: lacks consensus] >>> >>>>> I see no need for this team to have a policy more strict than >>>>> Debian generally regarding tarball repackaging. >>>> >>>> It's not about being more strict. >>>> It's about explicitly mentioning a requirement that is not clear to >>>> a number of our co-packagers. >>> >>> Sorry, but I can only read it as you contradicting yourself above... >> >> The policy of removing upstream-provided minified files comes from the >> interpretation of DFSG §2. >> So stating this policy on our policy page is not being stricter than >> Debian in general, just being clear on the workflow that packages >> maintained by the team must follow. > > As recent discussions (not so much here but) at [email protected]. have > shown, there is more than one interpretation of DFSG §2. > > So stating in a policy for this team how team members "must" interpret > Debian Policy is indeed more strict than Debian generally. > > I dearly appreciate your efforts trying to get this clarified, but > believe Policy should be defined in Debian generally, not here > specifically. > > I prefer that for this team we do not dictate, only recommend best > practices. > > >> Or do we really want to have this debate started again for each new >> package asking the team to be reviewed? > > I believe we need not have same debate for each new package, if we > document what we (or most of us) find to be best practices.
What is your suggestion for documenting that? +Emilien _______________________________________________ Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel
