Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:22:51AM -0300, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > First, section 4.14 should list things that one does not need to > describe in debian/README.source. For example, the use of one of the > "standard" patch systems (quilt, dpatch, simple-patchsys) doesn't need > to be documented

Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2008-08-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/08/08 at 17:19 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:17:44PM -0300, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 15/08/08 at 11:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > > > >> First, section 4.14 should list t

Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2008-08-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:17:44PM -0300, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 15/08/08 at 11:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > >> First, section 4.14 should list things that one does not need to > > >> describe in debian/READ

Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2008-08-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/08/08 at 16:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 15/08/08 at 11:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>> I think the better way is do it similar to copyright: for common > >>> patch/build system we s

Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2008-08-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/08/08 at 11:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > >> First, section 4.14 should list things that one does not need to > >> describe in debian/README.source. For example, the use of one of the > >> "standard" patch systems

Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2008-08-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15/08/08 at 11:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I think the better way is do it similar to copyright: for common >>> patch/build system we should include only a link to the relative >>> document. May

Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2008-08-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> First, section 4.14 should list things that one does not need to >> describe in debian/README.source. For example, the use of one of the >> "standard" patch systems (quilt, dpatch, simple-patchsys) doesn't need >> to be docum

Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2008-08-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > First, section 4.14 should list things that one does not need to > describe in debian/README.source. For example, the use of one of the > "standard" patch systems (quilt, dpatch, simple-patchsys) doesn't need > to be documented, since every NMUer should be able to work with

Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2008-08-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.0.1 Hi, I really like the idea of documenting special things about a source package in debian/README.source. However, I think that section 4.14 could be improved a lot. First, section 4.14 should list things that one does not need to describe in debian/README.