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Bug#1014537: unnamed packaging files in a multibinary package should be an error

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Hi Niels,

Thank you for this work.

Personally I have only one point I'd like to raise:

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 08:55:38PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
>  * debian/README.Debian
>  * debian/TODO
> 
> These have historically been installed into the main package and a note in
> debhelper (dh_installdocs) suggests these (or at least README.Debian) is a
> name standardized by Policy.  I am open to not installing them by default if
> one of you are willing to drive the discussion on debian-devel to assert
> there is consensus for that.

In all my QA work around the archive (admittedly, not much in the last
few years), I don't think I ever saw *one* d/TODO file that was
up-to-date; they always felt remnants from the last century or so.

Also, IIRC most of the time those files contained TODO items for the
maintainer, something that is hardly interesting for the final user.

Do you have any number about this file?


As such, I'd like to propose to instead not ship this file by default if
present in the source package.


BTW, is d/TODO documented anywhere?  I know it's an historic file, but I
don't think I saw it mentioned in any formal document.

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Bug#1014537: unnamed packaging files in a multibinary package should be an error Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> - 2022-10-29 21:20 +0200
  Bug#1014537: unnamed packaging files in a multibinary package should be an error Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> - 2022-10-30 10:50 +0100
    Bug#1014537: unnamed packaging files in a multibinary package should be an error Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> - 2022-10-30 12:00 +0100
      Bug#1014537: unnamed packaging files in a multibinary package should be an error Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> - 2022-10-30 18:00 +0100
        Bug#1014537: unnamed packaging files in a multibinary package should be an error Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> - 2022-11-05 13:00 +0100
  Bug#1014537: unnamed packaging files in a multibinary package should be an error Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2022-10-31 16:20 +0100

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