On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:38:15PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:16:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Fine with me, altough if both are acceptable, then there is no reason a > > package maintainer (or an upstream) may not decide to move the META file > > there by default. > > Ok > > > In fact i don't understand what is the reasoning behind not choosing to > > use a single directory only for debian package (and write it in the > > policy) even if findlib does also accept META files in stdlib subdirs > > for backward compatibility reasons. > > Because is additional work imposed to maintainers with no real > usefulness.
Ok, so let's add it in the policy as a not mandatory item or something such. Friendly, Sven Luther
