reassign 171221 debian-policy quit On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:42:27PM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:24:58PM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > > > > > "should" or "must"? I can't find anything in the policy saying > > > I *must* package it this way, it just says it is usually done this > > > way. Thus I hereby close that bug. > > > > It is specified in C.3. > > Well, it is exactly that section -- especially the last paragraph -- > which IMHO allowes to package the whole thing as one single tarball > instead of .orig.tar.gz + diff. Native debian packages are listed as > typical example for that, but I don't see noted that other packages are > not allowed to be packaged that way.
I'm reassigning this to debian-policy so we can get a general opinion on this section. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
