On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> (25/08/2009): > > 1) We should move to new source package format (3.0 etc) that remove > > the need for patch system altogether. > > 1) That's not ready yet.
That's not true. It's not deployed on ftp-master but all the code needed exists. But I can't do much more to convince ftpmasters to apply the patch... I already offered to do all the work that merging my patch would create them. > > 3) If a package is lacking debian/README.source, then one should > > expect that the source is ready to be used. If it not the case, even > > an empty debian/README.source is better than none. > > 3) That's called noise. I can certainly understand the point of view of Bill. It's not noise if you assume that you should not need to do anything before being able to work on the package... and if you do, you should find the required hint in README.source. The existence of the file (even if empty) proves that the package uses some patch system and that he should investigate a bit more. That said, checking the build dependencies or debian/rules is quite quick and gives you the same information in most cases when the package uses common patch systems in a usual ways. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
