Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > What is it, then, that distinguishes conformant packages from packages > that simply have a ‘debian/’ directory? If the result is a working > package that otherwise conforms, what more is needed, exactly?
> In other words, why is it not enough to simply say: > Every package must have a maintainer. > to satisfy all the points you raised? Maybe that would be best. The concern that I had is that it wouldn't be clear that a package just being maintained upstream isn't sufficient; someone needs to be responsible for the package as it exists in Debian. But that's probably sufficiently obvious in context; both you and Charles feel like it would be. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
