Hideki Yamane writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Licenses will be included in common-licenses if they meet all of the
>> following criteria:
> How about just pointing SPDX licenses URL for whole license text and
> lists DFSG-free licenses from that? (but yes, we should adjust short
>
On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 08:35:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Licenses will be included in common-licenses if they meet all of the
> following criteria:
>
> * The license is DFSG-free.
> * Exactly the same license wording is used by all works covered by it.
> * The license
Quoting Russ Allbery (2023-09-10 05:35:27)
> In order to structure the discussion and prod people into thinking about
> the implications, I will make the following straw man proposal. This is
> what I would do if the decision was entirely up to me:
>
> Licenses will be included in
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Hello everyone,
I come seeking your opinions. Please cc 885...@bugs.debian.org on replies
so that we can accumulate this discussion in a Debian Policy bug.
One of the responsibilities of the Policy Editors is to determine which
licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses, and thus
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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 straightforward to do. Before I invest the
time in that, I want to check the opinions of everyone else following
along and see if the
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Russ Allbery writes:
> -If a service unit is not present, ``systemd`` uses dependency information
> -contained within the init scripts and symlinks in ``/etc/rcn.d`` to decide
> -which scripts to run and in which order. The ``sysv-rc`` runlevel system
> -for ``sysvinit`` uses the same symlinks
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
> a decade, and it's time for the tail of packages still shipping only
> init scripts but not units to be updated.
>
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As part of reviewing #1039102, I took a detailed look at Policy 9.3
on system services and realized that it is largely obsolete and is
not followed by most Debian packages that provide system services.
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 try to see if I'm getting at something:
> (*) Replaces doesn't really mean "can be used in place of"
> -- that would be
On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 15:16:10 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I'm therefore going to propose fixing this bug with the following patch,
> which is more aggressive than you propose.
>
> I think this is informative rather than normative and therefore
> technically doesn't require seconds, but I'll give
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Max-Julian Pogner writes:
> consulting the debian policy manual whether it contains suggestions how
> to best implement diversions (see `man dpkg-divert`), i noticed syntax
> errors in the provided shell script example snippets.
> a patch fixing these typos is
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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:
>INSTALL_PROGRAM = $(INSTALL) -p-o root -g root -m 755
>ifeq (,$(filter nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
>
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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
> Architecture field, so that we can e.g. write:
> Architecture: !s390 !s390x
> (for xorg stuff)
> Architecture: !hppa !hurd-any
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
> created and at least a package was uploaded to it in October, but it has
> not seen further movement. Two days ago, a call to
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