Bug#608329: uncompressed files in doc not serious
severity 608329 normal thanks I don't believe this merits a serious error, as serious is defined (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer) to be: a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a must or required directive), or, in the package maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release. Debian Policy 12.3 says Plain text documentation should be installed in the directory /usr/share/doc/package, where package is the name of the package, and compressed with gzip -9 unless it is small. The files that I can see in /usr/share/doc/bzflag are all small (nothing over 50kb) and, in any event, this is not a must directive. Cheers, -Steve signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#608329: uncompressed files in doc not serious
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 03:06:06AM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: severity 608329 normal thanks I don't believe this merits a serious error, as serious is defined (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer) to be: [...] Debian Policy 12.3 says Happy for the reclassification. Note that Policy 12.7 uses must, though it is unclear whether the must refers to the existence of the changelog or its compression or both: Packages that are not Debian-native must contain a compressed copy of the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source tree in `/usr/share/doc/package' with the name `changelog.Debian.gz'. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#608329: uncompressed files in doc not serious
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 09:14:17AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 03:06:06AM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: I don't believe this merits a serious error, as serious is defined (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer) to be: [...] Debian Policy 12.3 says Happy for the reclassification. Note that Policy 12.7 uses must, though it is unclear whether the must refers to the existence of the changelog or its compression or both: Packages that are not Debian-native must contain a compressed copy of the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source tree in `/usr/share/doc/package' with the name `changelog.Debian.gz'. Ah, OK. I didn't see that part last night. I won't argue if you want it to be serious. However, I don't think it should hold up the release so I would suggest it merits a squeeze-ignore tag. Cheers, -Steve signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#608329: uncompressed files in doc not serious
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 01:55:07PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Happy for the reclassification. Note that Policy 12.7 uses must, though it is unclear whether the must refers to the existence of the changelog or its compression or both: Packages that are not Debian-native must contain a compressed copy of the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source tree in `/usr/share/doc/package' with the name `changelog.Debian.gz'. Ah, OK. I didn't see that part last night. I won't argue if you want it to be serious. However, I don't think it should hold up the release so I would suggest it merits a squeeze-ignore tag. Ack. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
