On Mi, 17 nov 10, 18:34:44, Klistvud wrote: > > Agreed, Debian Developers are already doing a huge -- and excellent > -- job and I would never dream of burdening them with additional > tasks. However, Debian is generally well respected within the FLOSS > world, and Debian Developers could leverage that respect in order to > gently "suggest" or "recommend" certain "best practices". What I > have in mind is *not* a Linux police, not even "tutorizing" (as you > say), but something simple and unpretentious, like pointing out > that, to Debian, certain "best practices", although not binding in > any way, are, let's put it this way, "more welcome than others". If
You mean something like this? http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide Of course, these guidelines only talk about making software easy to package. The kind of changes you are suggesting would better come from some other project, like freedesktop.org or so... Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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