Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.8.0 The policy section "Source package handling: debian/README.source" should be entirely replaced with a requirement that
Running dpkg-source -x on a source package MUST produce the source of the package, ready for editing, and allow one to make changes, and run dpkg-buildpackage to produce a modified package, without taking any additional steps. If the upstream or Debian source code maintenance practices applying to the package are nontrivial (for example, if the uploaded source package is itself generated from a metarepository), this should be documented in debian/README.source. And one could probably add Previously, packages which had ad-hoc patch systems would document their source code management practices in debian/README.source. Source packages now MUST NOT use in-source-package patch systems other than `3.0 (quilt)'. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
