Packaging Guidelines discussions

[Rahul Sundaram]

martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> [2008.03.26.1704 +0100]:
>> Since all of us distro folks have our own in-distro packaging
>> guidelines, wouldn't it make sense to start meeting and discussing these
>> things with other distros to try and get some conformity going on?
> 
> What exactly would be part of packaging guidelines? Would this
> include Debian's policy?

It could depending on how much it would apply to other distributions. 
One example of cross distribution coordination even when the underlying 
package formats are different would be

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-python@lists.debian.org/msg04208.html

Did you have anything specific in mind?

Rahul