Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> This new recommendation is *not* RC for lenny, only a recommendation. >> However, it is still a recommendation that most affected packages don't >> currently follow, so I wanted to give the development community a >> heads-up on this change. > Can this be savely ignored when it is planed to switch over to the 3.0 > (quilt) format as soon as it is allowed and thereby replacing the > current patch system? Switching to the 3.0 (quilt) format will satisfy the requirement that one can simply run dpkg-source -x on the source package, make changes, and run dpkg-buildpackage, which means that, according to this new Policy, no additional documentation is required. So the short version is yes, unless the transition to that format is expected to take some time. If your package build system is particularly complicated, or if you have to do another upload for lenny anyway, it may be nice for the security team to include a README.source for the existing package layout for lenny, but this is certainly *not* required and we are not expecting maintainers to address this issue for lenny. Due largely to lack of manpower, Policy changes are a bit desynchronized from our release cycle right now. In order for this to really be something for lenny, the Policy update would have had to have been published about six months ago; now, it's really too late to expect lenny to be affected by this change. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
