* Thomas Preud'homme [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.htm
Hi,
* Raphaël Hertzog [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 consider them documenta
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 still
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
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* Jamie Strandboge [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 recipes for
* 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
> dir
* 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 subjec
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 vio
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