>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
Anthony> The documentation should be found wherever the dpkg
Anthony> maintainers want it, not wherever the -policy maintainers
Anthony> think might be fun.
What policy contains won't be documentation. It shall be a
standard interface that must be implemented by any Debian packaging
tool -- and be the only policy requirement from Debian packages and
packaging tools.
Separate the interface from the tools, and their
documentation. Policy defines the interface. Given there are hundreds
of maintainers with thousands of packages, a standard for the
interface and file templates would be nice.
Since dpkg folk have already stated their commitment to not
changing interfaces out from under all the packages, this ought not
to be any inconvenience to them. Having a standard interface would
enable us to, *gasp*, allow the implementation of another packaging
tool.
manoj
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