Package: ansible
Version: 2.6.5+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainers,

IMHO would it a good thing if the Ansible package
also gets a debian/README.source file.


Quoting 
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#source-package-handling-debian-readme-source

This file should explain how to do all of the following:

    Generate the fully patched source, in a form ready for editing, that
    would be built to create Debian packages. Doing this with a patch
    target in debian/rules is recommended; see Main building script:
    debian/rules.
    Modify the source and save those modifications so that they will be applied 
when building the package.
    Remove source modifications that are currently being applied when building 
the package.
    Optionally, document what steps are necessary to upgrade the Debian
    source package to a new upstream version, if applicable.

This explanation should include specific commands and mention any
additional required Debian packages. It should not assume familiarity
with any specific Debian packaging system or patch management tools.

This explanation may refer to a documentation file installed by one of the
package?s build dependencies provided that the referenced documentation
clearly explains these tasks and is not a general reference manual.

debian/README.source may also include any other information that would
be helpful to someone modifying the source package. Even if the package
doesn?t fit the above description, maintainers are encouraged to document
in a debian/README.source file any source package with a particularly
complex or unintuitive source layout or build system



Your command line history of the 2.7 release would be great.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
-- 
Leven en laten leven

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