Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-29 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 +pending Hello Nicholas, On Fri 29 Nov 2019 at 01:26PM -05, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > At any rate, I've submitted an update MR here (see previous email for > extended rationale): > > https://salsa.debian.org/sten-guest/policy/merge_requests/3 Thank you for preparing a

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Sean, Sean Whitton writes: > Hello Nicholas, > > I am not sure what is going on with your (1), (2) and (3). Perhaps you > could propose your change in the form of a patch. > Those numbers refer to annotations in the quoted portion. IIRC you're also using notmuch mode, so [ x more

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Nicholas, I am not sure what is going on with your (1), (2) and (3). Perhaps you could propose your change in the form of a patch. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-19 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Sean Whitton writes: > Hello, > > On Sun 17 Nov 2019 at 10:29AM -08, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> How about: >> >> [1] This field should only be used when there are license or DFSG >> requirements to retain the referenced source package. [2] It should not >> be added solely as a way to

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:01:21 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sun 17 Nov 2019 at 10:29AM -08, Russ Allbery wrote: > > How about: > > > > This field should only be used when there are license or DFSG > > requirements to retain the referenced source package. It should not > > be added

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-17 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 17 Nov 2019 at 10:29AM -08, Russ Allbery wrote: > How about: > > This field should only be used when there are license or DFSG > requirements to retain the referenced source package. It should not > be added solely as a way to locate packages that need to be rebuilt >

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > diff --git a/policy/ch-relationships.rst b/policy/ch-relationships.rst > index 140fdf1..8e4d98a 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-relationships.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-relationships.rst > @@ -661,11 +661,10 @@ field in its control file: > Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Nicholas, On Fri 08 Nov 2019 at 03:09PM -05, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > You're welcome :-) Done! > https://salsa.debian.org/sten-guest/policy/merge_requests/2 Hmm, this patch isn't what you proposed in your previous mail: diff --git a/policy/ch-relationships.rst

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:53:31AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 04:51PM -05, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > > I suggest replacing the whole sentence with "The purpose of this field > > is exclusively for cases where a package's license, or when DFSG > > requirements,

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-08 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 04:51PM -05, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > The full sentence in question is "This field should not be added > solely for purposes other than satisfying license or DFSG requirements > to provide full source code". > > "solely for purposes other than satisfying" is the

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

2019-11-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.4.1.1 Severity: normal The full sentence in question is "This field should not be added solely for purposes other than satisfying license or DFSG requirements to provide full source code". "solely for purposes other than satisfying" is the problematic