Bug#1065643: debian-policy: Refer to «dpkg-buildtree clean» for dpkg generated files

2024-03-27 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 11:22pm +01, Guillem Jover wrote: > diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst > index 4307e89..2fb05cd 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-source.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst > @@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ variables are also available. > > The ``debian/substvars``

Bug#1064593: Bug#1066967: Bug#1064593: Bug#1066967: dh_sphinxdoc: replaces files provided by read-the-doc theme by empty symlinks

2024-03-27 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 22 Mar 2024 at 06:46pm +03, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Actually, I would move ${sphinxdoc:Depends} from Recommends to > Depends, because the documentation is mostly unusable without the > static files. I think it's in Recommends because we ship other formats that don't need it, and

Bug#1064593: Bug#1066967: Bug#1064593: Bug#1066967: dh_sphinxdoc: replaces files provided by read-the-doc theme by empty symlinks

2024-03-27 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 23 Mar 2024 at 05:08pm +01, Holger Wansing wrote: > While working on adapting the parts/7doc script (from Debian Webmaster > Team's 'cron' repo), I realized that this is not going to work out of the > box: while the concept of the symlinks mentioned above is working fine, > when

Bug#872587: Document the Protected field

2024-03-27 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 at 14:43:40 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > ke 27. maalisk. 2024 klo 14.00 Andrey Rakhmatullin (w...@debian.org) > kirjoitti: > > "Essential: yes" are always installed. Tools and dependencies assume they > > are installed. Bootstrapping tools install them implicitly.

Bug#872587: Document the Protected field

2024-03-27 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ke 27. maalisk. 2024 klo 14.00 Andrey Rakhmatullin (w...@debian.org) kirjoitti: > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 01:29:50PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > The documentation from deb-control(5) is: > > > > > > Protected: yes|no > > > This field is usually only needed when the answer is yes.

Bug#872587: Document the Protected field

2024-03-27 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 01:29:50PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > The documentation from deb-control(5) is: > > > > Protected: yes|no > > This field is usually only needed when the answer is yes. It denotes > > a package that is required mostly for proper booting of the system or >

Bug#872587: Document the Protected field

2024-03-27 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:27:09 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: > Control: retitle -1 Document the Protected field > > Adam Borowski writes: > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 02:28:22PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > >> Do you have any idea how long we can expect to wait until dpkg supports > >> the field? I