r8177 - /website/policy.pod

[gwolf at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: gwolf
Date: Tue Oct  9 22:18:41 2007
New Revision: 8177

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/?sc=1&rev=8177
Log:
Added information on how we expect our debian/control to be handled

Modified:
    website/policy.pod

Modified: website/policy.pod
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/website/policy.pod?rev=8177&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- website/policy.pod (original)
+++ website/policy.pod Tue Oct  9 22:18:41 2007
@@ -77,6 +77,56 @@
 must be updated to contain everyone that worked on the package. The
 Maintainer field must remain unchanged after the first import.
 
+The packages maintained by the group should contain the following fields:
+
+=over 
+
+=item Section
+
+Perl packages should be uploaded to the I<perl> section.
+
+=item Priority
+
+Most Perl packages should be of priority I<optional>.
+
+=item Maintainer
+
+All group-maintained packages should list 
+pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org as the main maintainer
+
+=item Uploaders
+
+List yourself in this field - Every person interested in co-maintaining this 
+package should be listed as an uploader. 
+
+=item Vcs-Svn
+
+An URL pointing to the package's base location in our repository - That
+is, for a package called I<libsomething-perl>,
+L<svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-perl/trunk/libsomething-perl/>
+
+=item Vcs-Browser
+
+An URL pointing to the public Web interface where this package's base location 
+in the repository can be browsed. for I<libsomething-perl>, it would be 
+L<http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libsomething-perl/>
+
+=item Homepage
+
+The URL for this module's upstream homepage. For CPAN modules, unless the 
+author has a specific homepage, you can point at 
+I<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Something/>
+
+=back
+
+The other usual fields should, of course, be present and with sensible values. 
+Particularly, try to stick to the highest published standards-version and 
+debhelper compatibility level. 
+
+The pkg-perl group members prefer to directly use debhelper when packaging. We
+suggest you not to use cdbs as part of the build process for packages intended
+to be group-maintained. 
+
 =head1 Release Process
 
 If you are a full DD, upload but be prepared to receive (at least parts of) the 
@@ -100,11 +150,13 @@
 
 =item * Gustavo Franco
 
+=item * Gunnar Wolf
+
 =back
 
 =head1 LICENSE
 
-Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Debian Perl Group.  All rights reserved. This document is
+Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Debian Perl Group.  All rights reserved. This document is
 free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
 terms as Perl itself