Sven, We provide a patch target, which we felt meets the requirement of policy 2.8.
debian-devel, is there a view, does one need README.source if you provide a patch target and use one of the standard patch management systems? Seems like this would cover 90% of use cases and add very little value! Mark -original message- Subject: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#498263: kaffeine: please provide debian/README.source From: Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09/09/2008 07:23 Package: kaffeine Version: 0.8.7-1 Severity: normal Hi, policy version 3.8.0 recommends that packages using a patch system should ship a debian/README.source file, see section 4.14. Your package does not include such a file, although it claims to comply to Standards-Version 3.8.0. It seems that anyone who wants to hack around kaffeine has to learn cdbs and quilt first, this is IMHO not so nice. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.3-libata Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kaffeine depends on: ii hdparm 8.9-2 tune hard disk parameters for high ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 core libraries and binaries for al ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcdparanoia0 3.10.0+debian-1 audio extraction tool for sampling ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library ii libogg0 1.1.3-4 Ogg Bitstream Library ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-3.1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.0.dfsg-3.1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library ii libxcb1 1.1-1.1 X C Binding ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxine1 1.1.14-3 the xine video/media player librar ii libxine1-ffmpeg 1.1.14-3 MPEG-related plugins for libxine1 ii libxine1-x 1.1.14-3 X desktop video output plugins for ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension kaffeine recommends no packages. kaffeine suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ pkg-kde-extras mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-extras -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]