On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> (25/08/2009): > > > The existence of a debian/patches directory proves that the > > > package uses some patch system and that he should investigate > > > more. > > > > But this assertion is not true once new source packages are > > “ready”. :) Some forward-looking can't hurt when we design policy. > > And fortunately, Chris's concern will go away when that's the case, > since AFAICT the patches are going to be applied (according to my > reading of dpkg-source(1)), and there will be no reason to be bothered > with README.source at all.
That's my point. Without README.source (assuming the rules are changed to not force the creation of that file for common patch systems), seeing debian/patches/ is not enough to know if the patches are already applied or not. With the current rule in policy, only 3.0 (quilt) source package would not have a README.source and the lack of README.source fact can be used to decide that no further investigation is required. > Thanks for playing, though. Thanks for trying to understand other's people point of view. :) That said, I don't care much about this specific argument but I like to highlight the fact that you should try to understand the point of view of the other proponents if you ever want to reach some (other) decision that satisfies everybody. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
