Bug#494472: closed by Manoj Srivastava (Debian polisy is not a HOWTO document)

2008-12-26 Thread Harald Dunkel
Russ Allbery wrote: I agree that this would be useful but I'm not sure the bug queue for debian-policy is the place to track it. Realistically, the Debian Policy team is unlikely to write such a document from scratch, so having the bug open against Policy doesn't reach someone who's going to b

Bug#494472: closed by Manoj Srivastava (Debian polisy is not a HOWTO document)

2008-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Harald Dunkel writes: > Sorry, I did not have such a deep insight into the procedures how the > Debian policies are maintained. Filing an ER against Debian Policy > seemed the right way to me. If the Debian Policy Team doesn't feel > responsible, or if it does not have the resources to write such

Bug#494472: closed by Manoj Srivastava (Debian polisy is not a HOWTO document)

2008-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Harald Dunkel writes: > I am not asking for a howto, but for a packaging policy for kernel > source modules. Similar to the Emacs, Java, Perl and Python policies to > be found on http://www.debian.org/devel/. > > AFAICS there are >50 packages depending upon module-assistant, not > looking at the

Bug#494472: closed by Manoj Srivastava (Debian polisy is not a HOWTO document)

2008-12-26 Thread Harald Dunkel
I am not asking for a howto, but for a packaging policy for kernel source modules. Similar to the Emacs, Java, Perl and Python policies to be found on http://www.debian.org/devel/. AFAICS there are >50 packages depending upon module-assistant, not looking at the kernel-package package. Some commo