Re: Bug#549910: debian-policy: Specify requirement in terms of upgradeability, interface stability

2009-10-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Do we really need to have policy to tell people not to create buggy > packages? Well, there are people out there that don't know that doing such things are bugs. I would like to be able to educate them pointing to our policy, explaining that it's wh

Re: Bug#549910: debian-policy: Specify requirement in terms of upgradeability, interface stability

2009-10-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Oct 06 2009, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.8.3.0 > Severity: wishlist > > We have some unwritten packaging rules and it would be good to write them > down even if some of them appear to be obvious to most of us. I think in > particular to stuff like: > > - a

Bug#549910: debian-policy: Specify requirement in terms of upgradeability, interface stability

2009-10-06 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 Severity: wishlist We have some unwritten packaging rules and it would be good to write them down even if some of them appear to be obvious to most of us. I think in particular to stuff like: - a package must at least be upgradable from one stable release t