Your message dated Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:44:51 -0700
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and subject line Closing inactive Policy bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #580135,
regarding [debian-policy] 12.7 Changelog files shouldn't advise the use of lynx
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.4.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
In order to include upstream changelog distributed in HTML, and convert
it as a plain text changelog.gz, policy should advise the use of
html2txt (which debhelper already depends on) rather than lynx that has
fewer chance to already be on Build-Depends:.
Cheers
David
--- policy.sgml.cur 2010-05-03 15:36:32.000000000 -0400
+++ policy.sgml 2010-05-03 15:45:49.000000000 -0400
@@ -9216,7 +9216,7 @@
HTML, it should be made available in that form as
<file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/changelog.html.gz</file>
and a plain text <file>changelog.gz</file> should be generated
- from it using, for example, <tt>lynx -dump -nolist</tt>. If
+ from it using, for example, <tt>html2text</tt>. If
the upstream changelog files do not already conform to this
naming convention, then this may be achieved either by
renaming the files, or by adding a symbolic link, at the
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control: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org
control: usertag -1 +obsolete
control: tag -1 +wontfix
Russ Allbery and I did a round of in-person bug triage at DebConf17 and
we are closing this bug as inactive.
The reasons for closing fall into the following categories, from most
frequent to least frequent:
- issue is appropriate for Policy, there is a consensus on how to fix
the problem, but preparing the patch is very time-consuming and no-one
has volunteered to do it, and we do not judge the issue to be
important enough to keep an open bug around;
- issue is appropriate for Policy but there does not yet exist a
consensus on what should change, and no recent discussion. A fresh
discussion might allow us to reach consensus, and the messages in the
old bug are unlikely to help very much; or
- issue is not appropriate for Policy.
If you feel this bug is still relevant and want to restart the
discussion, you can re-open the bug. However, please consider instead
opening a new bug with a message that summarises and condenses the
previous discussion, updates the report for the current state of Debian,
and makes clear exactly what you think should change.
A lot of these old bugs have long side tangents and numerous messages,
and that old discussion is not necessarily helpful for figuring out what
Debian Policy should say today.
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Sean Whitton
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