>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> This section used to be part of the debian packaging
Joey> manual. Having documentation available to allow by-hand
Joey> unpacking of a source package is pretty important from a
Joey> security and general utility point of view. It does not, of
Joey> course, belong in policy.
I agree the text does not belong in policy, but I believe that we
should as a matter of policy adopt a particular source and binary
packaging format and that format should be documented somewhere. We
could alternatively say that whatever dpkg-dev handles is by
definition a Debian source package. The disadvantage of doing this is
that then we don't have an interface from which to write other tools
that manipulate source packages.
