Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages

2017-01-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Control: tag -1 pending Josh Triplett writes: > Based on a thread on debian-devel about Recommends, I'd like to propose > the attached change to policy, which limits the strongest dependency a > package should declare on its supplemental -doc package. Thanks, applied for

Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages

2017-01-02 Thread Niels Thykier
On Sun, 01 Jan 2017 23:06:17 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] > > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > > index 404dc73..421e0d1 100644 > > --- a/policy.sgml > > +++ b/policy.sgml > > @@ -10699,6 +10699,18 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > > > > > > > > + If package

Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages

2017-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Looks reasonable to me. Seconded. > Seconded. Thanks! IIRC, Josh isn't (yet) a DD, so this needs one more second. > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 404dc73..421e0d1 100644 > ---

Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages

2017-01-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Russ Allbery wrote: > Looks reasonable to me. Seconded. Seconded. > > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > > index 404dc73..421e0d1 100644 > > --- a/policy.sgml > > +++ b/policy.sgml > > @@ -10699,6 +10699,18 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > > > > > > > > + If

Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages

2016-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Josh Triplett writes: > Based on a thread on debian-devel about Recommends, I'd like to propose > the attached change to policy, which limits the strongest dependency a > package should declare on its supplemental -doc package. > This mostly documents existing practice.

Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages

2016-08-22 Thread Josh Triplett
[Please CC me on replies, as I didn't receive this mail, and just happened to see it in the archives.] On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:38:42 +0100 George Bateman wrote: > I'm currently making my first package, Processing. It's a GUI teaching > tool for (usually Java)

Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages

2016-08-22 Thread George Bateman
Dear Josh, I'm currently making my first package, Processing. It's a GUI teaching tool for (usually Java) programming, with its own standard libraries for the code produced. It is currently split up into three packages: "processing" the GUI, "libprocessing3-java" the library, and "processing-doc"

Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages

2016-05-03 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Tags: patch Based on a thread on debian-devel about Recommends, I'd like to propose the attached change to policy, which limits the strongest dependency a package should declare on its supplemental -doc package. This mostly documents existing practice.