Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide

[Micah Gersten]

On 12/18/2012 09:23 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 18.12.2012 01:52, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> UDD is not mature or reliable enough to be presented to new users as "the" way to do packaging for Ubuntu.  I think the current guide is fatally flawed as is.
>>
>> As soon as a branch is out of date, new users are lost.
> while out-of-date branches and other bits and pieces around UDD are a
> problem, can we please make them a separate discussion?
>
> We can certainly have a discussion about our Development Guide and what
> we recommend in which way. The reality and motivation of the current
> discussion is that two guides are simply confusing and that the Wiki
> documentation hasn't been touched or updated in any meaningful way in ages.
>
> I'd suggest we agree on one guide and then figure out what we recommend,
> rewrite or improve in there. This shouldn't be a blocker for obsoleting
> one of the guides.
>
> Have a great day,
>  Daniel
>
I think the point is that the new guide would have to include the
pull-lp-source/debdiff/attach to bug route as well before some of us are
comfortable deleting that information from the Wiki.  It's not so much
where it lives as that it's available as a fallback.
Thanks,
Micah