[patch] experimental and uploads to unstable

2010-12-03 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! I just found this part in the devref which should get removed since version tracking in the BTS is in place. Find the patch attached, as per README-contrib I'm not commiting it myself, at least not until I'm told so. ;) Enjoy! Rhonda -- dholbach Last day of

alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Policy is clear on packages in main aren't allowed to depend on packages outside of main. Now in a fair amount of cases this has been worked around by having the package outside of main as alternative dependency and a package in main offer basic functionality for the package to

Bug#681289: debian-policy: Changelog and copyright should be package metadata

2012-07-12 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi, * Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org [2012-07-12 08:46:03 CEST]: Both the changelog and the copyright files are stored with a package's normal data (within data.tar in the .deb) but they are really package metadata (that should be part of control.tar in the .deb). Are they? I

Re: Bug#681289: debian-policy: Changelog and copyright should be package metadata

2012-07-12 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Thomas Preud'homme robo...@celest.fr [2012-07-12 17:59:19 CEST]: Le jeudi 12 juillet 2012 17:09:46, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : Did I miss a thread on debian-devel about this? There was a thread indeed. See this one: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/06/msg00232.html Well

Bug#444270: debian-policy: policy doesn't say anything on ~ in Version numbers

2007-09-27 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.2 Severity: normal Hi! It would be kind if in section 5.6.12. `Version' the usage of ~ could be noted, at least saying that it is an allowed character, too. Currently every package with a ~ in its version (either upstream or debian part of it) is

Re: Relative and absolute symlinks

2008-08-15 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-15 16:47:41 CEST]: (Further discussion should happen on [EMAIL PROTECTED], but please CC me.) Same with me, I plan to scan the archives of the list, but am not subscribed. During Manoj's policy talk at DebConf8, Gerfried opened the subject of

Re: Relative and absolute symlinks

2008-08-27 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-27 16:57:58 CEST]: Do we have consensus that a: a) links that do not climb directory trees should be encouraged to be relative (do not break case 2) b) subdirectories of /var/*/ and /usr/* should be treated as top level

Bug#536790: debian-policy: please clarify 'required target' in section 4.9

2009-07-13 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Jamie Strandboge ja...@ubuntu.com [2009-07-13 16:39:43 CEST]: Section 4.9 of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html states that there a number of required targets for debian/rules. Specifically: This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the package-specific