Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > 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)'. How many packages in the archive would we make buggy by adding this requirement? I think it's probably the right thing to do anyway, but I'd like to understand the scope of the disruption. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
