Bug#484359: Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:08:45PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 22:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [...] With this patch applied, I think that these bugs are now moot, but I wanted to check before closing them. Is there any further work required in britney to treat

Bug#484359: Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-21 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 22:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [...] With this patch applied, I think that these bugs are now moot, but I wanted to check before closing them. Is there any further work required in britney to treat urgencies as case-insensitive, or does the change in the log file

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
But I might look at patches changing it (or better, bzr trees ready to merge), if someone really wants it changed. Patch attached. I can also create a bzr repository if that's helpful. For the future - yes please. Including a changelog entry. I also added a fix for logging that I'm not

Bug#484359: Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patch attached. I can also create a bzr repository if that's helpful. For the future - yes please. Including a changelog entry. Will do in the future. Britney uses it, but its not needed at that point, as p_a will read the stuff out of the .dak file

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11408 March 1977, Joey Hess wrote: The code in dak, in the current form, is there since 2002-02-13, when jennifer (today process_unchecked) got added to the repository. Most probably something similar existed in the code before this. Its also nearly unchanged since then, with changes being

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11407 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote: You make it sound like it's an ASN.1 encoder or something. If Joerg says that he absolutely won't change dak, I wont change it. But I might look at patches changing it (or better, bzr trees ready to merge), if someone really wants it changed. Why

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:52:04 -0700, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought policy was documenting practice and not the other way around? Hm, no, that's not my perception of Policy. New Policy changes should reflect practice in Debian first

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11407 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote: You make it sound like it's an ASN.1 encoder or something. If Joerg says that he absolutely won't change dak, I wont change it. But I might look at patches changing it (or better, bzr trees ready to merge),

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-05 Thread Joey Hess
Joerg Jaspert wrote: The code in dak, in the current form, is there since 2002-02-13, when jennifer (today process_unchecked) got added to the repository. Most probably something similar existed in the code before this. Its also nearly unchanged since then, with changes being cosmetical. Nice

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Sorry, please reply to this message rather than the other. I got the wrong bug number and sent this to Lintian instead of to Policy. Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After discussion with Joerg Jaspert, I'm of the opinion that dak is the canonical place for valid urgencies to be set.

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-04 Thread Luk Claes
Russ Allbery wrote: Sorry, please reply to this message rather than the other. I got the wrong bug number and sent this to Lintian instead of to Policy. Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After discussion with Joerg Jaspert, I'm of the opinion that dak is the canonical place for

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought policy was documenting practice and not the other way around? Hm, no, that's not my perception of Policy. New Policy changes should reflect practice in Debian first unless the problem is significant enough that Policy needs to pick a side before

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-04 Thread Luk Claes
Russ Allbery wrote: Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought policy was documenting practice and not the other way around? Hm, no, that's not my perception of Policy. New Policy changes should reflect practice in Debian first unless the problem is significant enough that Policy

Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: Of course, if someone believes Policy is wrong, they can always propose to change it. In this case, though, I think Policy's current position is also the correct technical one to take. Good luck with convincing the ones implementing