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Revising the {Policy,Programmers}manual

I have volunteeered to see about revising the manuals. We are aiming to
get this out as a bug fix to dpkg,dpkg-dev within the next week or so
(along with some code changes, but that is Heiko's job :)

Since I was doing this, I wanted to see if there were areas that need to
be clarified in order to clear up some of the confusions we are having. 
For now, I am looking at definfing and describing the policy in place for
the release of 1.2. After December we can work on the policies for 1.3 (I
know a few items have been kicked around but aren't ready for
implementation) 

I want feedback and you can choose either a reply to me or the list.

So far I have...

For 1.2:

[for sure]

 * new-maintainer@debian.org as the address for all changes to package
   maintanance (first package, getting rid of a package, picking up a
   package)

 * Clarification of what lists to send upload/change announcements to.

 * clarification of shlibs section
   [from a note from Heiko who is working on the dpkg code]

[unsure - for 1.3?]

 * debmake
   Since Christoph has been making a lot of this easier, should the 
   programmers manual refer to debmake examples for things?

 * does the language defining non-free/contrib need to be clarified?

 * Version 2.3 of the Web Standard?
   It seems that actual implementation of it is still up in the air.

 * Documentation as html? 
   or is this part of the Web Standard, and when that is ready to be
   implemented then the policy can be changed

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