Le Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:21:27AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann a écrit : > > Why do you need to sprinkle information there instead of enhancing the > documentation on the subject already in the developer's reference?
Dear Thomas, I need to eat, drink, breeze, but I do not feel a particular need to sprinke information. I am of course very open to enhance the developper's reference. Here is a question to answer your question: Why does the FTP team need to override the priority of -dbg packages to `extra'? The answer to this will tell where the information belongs. I think that at some point of my Debian studies I was told that the `overrides' system was a security device to prevent DDs to abuse the Debian archive by uploading packages with a priority too high. Then I thought that if the -dbg packages need a special attention compared to the many other packages that are in extra but shouldn't or vice-versa, then the requirement was a `must' and that `musts' are better in the Policy than in the Reference. Apparently, the Priority: and Section: fields in the source packages are only informational and the `overrides' file is the authoritative reference, because the role of the FTP team is to manage priorities and sections and ensure archive consistency. If this is accurate, I will write a patch to the Reference explaining it and stating that -dbg packages should be `extra'. In the future, how about suppressing those fields completely if they are only useful at the first upload? This will save the time managing them. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]