[med-svn] r2667 - trunk/community/website/docs

[plessy at alioth.debian.org]

Author: plessy
Date: 2008-11-13 04:39:44 +0000 (Thu, 13 Nov 2008)
New Revision: 2667

Modified:
   trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Documented README.source.


Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2008-11-12 19:27:58 UTC (rev 2666)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2008-11-13 04:39:44 UTC (rev 2667)
@@ -277,6 +277,18 @@
 			<title><filename>debian/changelog</filename></title>
 			<para>Packages hosted in our Subversion repository, that have been modified but not uploaded must use <emphasis>UNRELEASED</emphasis> as a distribution name. This can be done automatically by declaring <emphasis>DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog</emphasis> in <filename>~/.devscripts</filename> and using <command>dch</command>.</para>
 		</sect2>
+		<sect2>
+			<title><filename>debian/README.source</filename></title>
+			<para>This file is recommended by the Policy (<ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource">§ 4.14</ulink>) from version 3.8.0 for documenting source package handling. You can start from the following template, and add other necessary informations about patch systems and sources in other format than gzipped tar achive:
+				<literallayout>
+This package is maintained by the Debian Med packaging team. Please refer to
+our group policy if you would like to commit to our Subversion repository. All
+Debian developpers have write acces to it.
+
+http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
+				</literallayout>
+			</para>
+		</sect2>
 		
 		<sect2>
 			<title>Debhelper</title>