(Sending a personal copy because you said that you weren't following debian-devel easily. Apologies if this was a mistake.)
Daniel Dickinson <csh...@brucetelecom.com> writes: > I'm finding that I can't keep up with devel but I would like to be able > to see a summary of consensuses (consensii?) that result from the > discussions, as well a final summaries of best practices (and changes to > them. Also a neat changelog of policy changes I should be aware of. > > Basically I want to make sure I package well, but I don't > want to track -devel, because it is way too busy. > > Anything that can help? > > Also, is there any codification of best practices anywhere? (and what's > the deal with the new package/patch format?) All of this stuff *should* make it into Debian Policy, and from there into the announcements that are posted to debian-devel-announce each time a new version of Debian Policy is uploaded. The average Debian packager should not have to care about most of these discussions until they make it into Policy (or, for best practices, the Developer's Reference -- that I track by installing it and using apt-listchanges to show me changelogs). We're rather far from that ideal at the moment. I hope to get us closer. The more people who are willing to file Policy bugs and write patches, the better, although of even more help would be more people who had the time to do the hard work of steering Policy discussions through to completion and consensus on wording. If you install the debian-policy package, you'll get a changelog of Policy updates in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz. In the meantime, most of the major initiatives that require the average packager to pay attention are announced to debian-devel-announce in some form, and anything that isn't should be. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
