Bug#998282: Please make Section a required field for the source paragraph in d/control

2022-09-22 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2022-09-20 at 19:36:36 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Felix Lechner writes: > > The installable stanzas in d/control (called "binary package paragraphs" > > in policy) inherit the Section field from the source paragraph. There is > > no reason to provide inheritance the other way

Bug#998282: Please make Section a required field for the source paragraph in d/control

2022-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Felix Lechner writes: > The installable stanzas in d/control (called "binary package paragraphs" > in policy) inherit the Section field from the source paragraph. There is > no reason to provide inheritance the other way around. Huh, this pointed out to me that I don't know what the current

Bug#998282: Please make Section a required field for the source paragraph in d/control

2021-11-05 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi David, On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 7:14 AM David Bremner wrote: > > do you have some numbers According to Lintian [1] all sources among the 33,721 sources in unstable and experimental—except perhaps the ones listed below—have a Section field in the source stanza of d/control. [2] You can see for

Bug#998282: Please make Section a required field for the source paragraph in d/control

2021-11-04 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi David, On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 7:14 AM David Bremner wrote: > > I think Debian would be better off if > we eliminated sections Without sections my request would go away, but that's as much of a side as I will take. > do you have some numbers Thank you for that idea! I added a Lintian

Bug#998282: Please make Section a required field for the source paragraph in d/control

2021-11-04 Thread David Bremner
Felix Lechner writes: > > The installable stanzas in d/control (called "binary package > paragraphs" in policy) inherit the Section field from the source > paragraph. There is no reason to provide inheritance the other way > around. > > Also, sources may not build successfully on all

Bug#998282: Please make Section a required field for the source paragraph in d/control

2021-11-01 Thread Felix Lechner
Package: debian-policy Hi, The installable stanzas in d/control (called "binary package paragraphs" in policy) inherit the Section field from the source paragraph. There is no reason to provide inheritance the other way around. Also, sources may not build successfully on all architectures.