Bug#1051371: debian-policy: stop referring to legacy filesystem paths for script interpreters

2023-09-06 Thread Edward Little
Unsubscribe: e.little...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 5:54 PM Luca Boccassi wrote: > Package: debian-policy > X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@debian.org hel...@subdivi.de > > Debian only supports merged-usr since Bookworm. We should update policy > to reference /usr/bin/sh and similar paths to

Bug#830913: debian-policy: Allow amd64 systems without /lib64

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 2:15 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > > It's now been about a year and it looks like this message didn't get a > > reply, so I'm going to go ahead and close this bug because I don't think

Bug#1029211: debian-policy: Add mention of the new non-free-firmware archive area

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:48 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Gunnar Wolf writes: > > > It has been four months since the General Resolution 2022/vote_003 was > > voted¹, but it has not yet been completely adopted. The archive area was >

Bug#1031403: debian-policy: missing quotes in sh script example in file policy/ap-pkg-diversions

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 6:33 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Control: tags -1 pending > > Max-Julian Pogner writes: > > > consulting the debian policy manual whether it contains suggestions how > > to best implement diversions (see `man

Bug#917995: marked as done (debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations)

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 5:15 PM Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > Your message dated Sun, 10 Sep 2023 14:11:41 -0700 > with message-id <87fs3lvilu@hope.eyrie.org> > and subject line Re: Bug#917995:

Bug#1039102: debian-policy: make systemd units mandatory for packages shipping system services

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 10:15 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Luca Boccassi writes: > > > systemd upstream will drop support for the transitional sysv generator > > in the near future. The transition is long finished, it's been at least

Bug#877697: marked as done (debian-policy: discourage using all 4 digits numbers in Standards-Version)

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 7:31 PM Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > Your message dated Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:26:20 -0700 > with message-id <87y1hdtxsz@hope.eyrie.org> > and subject line Re: Bug#877697:

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 1:45 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > This patch is still waiting for one more second. It was previously > seconded by Helmut. > > Russ Allbery writes: > > > Here is a patch dropping the restriction on hard

Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 10:54 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Luca Boccassi writes: > > > Sure, updated as suggested. > > I have a bunch of minor wording fixes that I'd want to make at this before > merging, but that should be

Bug#1020248: debian-policy: Clarifying nomenclature for control file names

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 2:33 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > > Seems I missed another file: > > > * .changes: > > policy → «upload control file» / «Debian changes file» > > dpkg → «upload control

Bug#949258: debian-policy: Support negated architecture specifications in debian/control Architecture field

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:57 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > I didn't find a previous discussion on this: it would be useful to > > support negated architecture specifications in the debian/control > >

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 1:42 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > This patch from a while back is still waiting for one more second before > it can be merged for the next Policy release. It previously got one > second from Wouter. I

Bug#991984: closed by Russ Allbery (Re: Bug#991984: Please document minimal environment variable needed for sensible-utils)

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 4:21 AM Bastien Roucariès wrote: > Le dimanche 10 septembre 2023, 04:33:06 UTC Debian Bug Tracking System a > écrit : > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > > which was filed

Bug#991984: marked as done (Please document minimal environment variable needed for sensible-utils)

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 12:33 AM Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > Your message dated Sat, 09 Sep 2023 21:28:34 -0700 > with message-id <87jzsyzm6l@hope.eyrie.org> > and subject line Re: Bug#991984:

Bug#830913: marked as done (debian-policy: Allow amd64 systems without /lib64)

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 12:21 AM Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > Your message dated Sat, 09 Sep 2023 21:18:37 -0700 > with message-id <87sf7mzmn6@hope.eyrie.org> > and subject line Re: Bug#830913:

Bug#904608: marked as done (Include upstream metadata spec in Policy)

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 12:15 AM Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > Your message dated Sat, 09 Sep 2023 21:12:48 -0700 > with message-id <87wmwyzmwv.fsf...@hope.eyrie.org> > and subject line Re:

Bug#940234: marked as done (debian-policy: add a section about source reproducibility)

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 12:27 AM Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > Your message dated Sat, 09 Sep 2023 21:23:52 -0700 > with message-id <87o7iazmef@hope.eyrie.org> > and subject line Re: Bug#940234:

Bug#963524: debian-policy: Binary and Description fields not mandatory in .changes on source-only uploads

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 1:33 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Here is an updated proposed change for this bug, incorporating Guillem's > suggestions. It is ready for seconds. > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#1030382: marked as done (encourage Vcs-Git over other Vcs-* headers)

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 10:39 PM Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > Your message dated Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:35:06 -0700 > with message-id <87a5tu21t1@hope.eyrie.org> > and subject line Re: Bug#1030382:

Bug#1050322: Partial versus complete replacement of a package by another

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 6:51 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > julien.pu...@gmail.com writes: > > > Oh. I think I had two problems: > > (1) thinking "Replaces" meant "replaces" ; > > (2) thinking d/control controlled packages. > > > Let me

Bug#1051582: Policy 9.3 (Starting system services) is largely obsolete

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 10:12 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 4.6.2.0 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: r...@debian.org > > As part of reviewing #1039102, I took a detailed look at Policy 9.3 > on

Bug#1024367: In 4.9.1, the example uses not recommended install -s

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 6:18 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Enrico Zini writes: > > > Hello, and thank you for maintaining the Policy! > > > Policy paragraph 4.9.1 has an example debian/rules which contains these > > lines: > > >

Bug#1051468: cannot install BIOS machine with mini.iso, error creating /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars

2023-09-08 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 3:45 PM Philip Hands wrote: > Marc Haber writes: > > > On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> On 08/09/2023 at 13:56, Marc Haber wrote : > >> > I tried installing sid from

Bug#1051238: ITP: biome -- formatter and linter for web languages

2023-09-06 Thread Edward Little
Please remove this email address from list. Thanks. e.little...@gmail.com On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 4:39 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jonas Smedegaard > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, Debian Javascript > Maintainers > > -BEGIN PGP