[Python-modules-team] musicbrainzngs package in debian (re: bug #698202)

Simon Chopin chopin.simon at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 21:28:07 UTC 2013


Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2013-04-17 15:57:18)
> Quoting Alastair Porter (2013-04-17 13:56:27)
> > I have one question about adding documentation to the package. Is it 
> > easier for you as a packager to have documentation sources, or the 
> > compiled html, or does it not matter? I'm not too sure what the best 
> > practises are around this.
> 
> As upstream you should ideally release for the whole World to consume.  
> Large distributions like Debian often have needs that makes sense to 
> adapt to, but in this case I believe that it is best for you to ship not 
> only sources for documentation but actual human-readable documentation - 
> even if we for Debian choose to regenerate documentation.
> 
> (this is similar to use of e.g. automake and autoconf).
So, to answer you question: as long as we have the sources I'm happy :-)



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