About Debian Science Policy Manual

[David Bremner]

At Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:35:13 +0200,
Frederic Lehobey wrote:
> 
>   I would say yes because it is closer to the maintenance practice
> described here:
> https://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/events/233.en.html (video
> should be available soon). Even though the maintenance described by
> Martin F. Krafft might be seen a bit complicated, I advocate being as
> close to it or as compatible as possible with it, as its main goal is
> being able to share patches and repositories with other distributions.

I finally got around to watching this video

  http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/547_Packaging_with_version_control_systems.ogg

This workflow, or something like it, does seem worth at least
trying. I think before we get anywhere near policy, we need to try out
a few packages in this style.

All the best,

David