[cl-debian] Re: CL Policy

[Luca Capello]

Hi Pierre!

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:00:56 +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Luca Capello dies 17/10/2007 hora 04:58:
>> I guess this should be in the CL-Debian policy ;-)
>
> After discussing a bit with maintainers involved with Perl or Python
> packaging, I wonder if our policy shouldn't be extended a bit and
> made mandatory for Common Lisp packaging.

I think that because of clc the "policy" is already mandatory and I
don't know of any CL package that doesn't follow it.

> Being mandatory ensures packages will be consistent, which is better
> both for maintainers (they know for sure where to put things and how
> to name things) and users (they know fore sure where to find things
> and how they would be named).

Fully ACK.

The "Common Lisp in Debian Manual" [1] written by René should be the
start for the policy, IMO.

Comments, suggestions, opinions?

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://cl-debian.alioth.debian.org/clid/clid.html/