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

2009-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 07 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > BTW I find no reference in policy about the NEWS.Debian file. It would > nice to require to document (at last for one stable release) all (also > user visibe API/ABI) incompatibilities in such files. It is a goos practice, yes. Seems to m

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

2009-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 07 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 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 ede th

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

2009-10-07 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Raphaƫl 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 package must at least be upgradable