On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:18:09AM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > Policy only mentions them in two places, and doesn't explain the term > > anywhere. Under 'dates in version numbers': > > > > Native Debian packages (i.e., packages which have been written > > especially for Debian) whose version numbers include dates should > > always use the `YYYYMMDD' format. > > It looks (from that and your other email) that there is a discrepancy. "no > .diff.gz" and "which have been written especially for Debian" are not the > same thing. I think "which have been written especially for Debian" should > be replaced with something like "which can be built for Debian without any > modification," where one may want to make "built for Debian" a bit more > explicit eventually (e.g. to mention that the result of the build is Debian > packages).
This is not a discrepancy. The Debian native source package format is only meant to be used for packages which have been written especially for Debian. -- - mdz
