Debian web mirrors at https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/;>https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/.
+If a package installs a FreeDesktop desktop entries, it must
+ not also install a Debian menu entry.
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r that there is a reference back to the
> earlier definition?
>
> If you meant to get rid of that, no problem.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Are you referring to the paragraph I
deleted?
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t thought it'd be useful to point at the
> previous discussion about this very subject.
Thank you for digging this up!
I have no desire to argue in favour of either your patch or mine, but
since mine has been okayed by three TC members in this bug, in the
interests of getting this bug closed, I've
ktop file", but given that we have deprecated menu
files, it seems like the right way to reflect the change.
> The action to draft language for that has stalled in the policy
> process.
Is there a policy bug that got stalled? If not, maybe this bug should
just be reassigned to policy?
Hello,
On Tue, Nov 28 2017, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> - The TC *does not* make the number of nominees or number of
> accepted nominations public.
I'm curious to here the thinking behind this particular line of the
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s both Policy and TC.)
We're not really in the normal Policy case anymore, because normally
people talk it out and reach consensus. For this bug that simply has
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chnically it's §6.1.3 because according to the policy team
delegation, we decide what goes into the policy manual.
But it certainly falls under at least one of §6.1.1 and §6.1.3, and not
§6.1.4.
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Hello,
On Sun 29 Jul 2018 at 10:14PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Sean Whitton dijo [Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 09:30:04AM +0800]:
>> > I believe his request might also be considered under §6.1.1, since we're
>> > being asked about a policy change. (After talking to Sean in pe
Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
On Thu 09 Aug 2018 at 09:19pm +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Sean Whitton
>
>> The general question about which I am seeking advice: does the
>> T.C. think that Debian can be consistent on service (re)starts in
>> maintscripts,
;
> This package skips steps 1 and 2, but does all of steps 3-6.
But all of steps 3--6 are part of the package build.
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time to fix their
> packages
> and only become a MUST once those packages have been fixed (or something
> along those lines, maybe after buster is released).
I'd like to suggest giving a window of time. Otherwise the policy
process alone won't really have the authority to switch from
sh
surely a completely separate issue (which we should discuss at the
level of Debian Policy, not refer directly to the T.C.).
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Hello,
On Fri 17 Aug 2018 at 12:01AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 09:22:17AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> For example, someone might want to use a Debian system to investigate a
>> bug on an Ubuntu system. They might begin by downloading some source
&
Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 09:22:17AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> For example, someone might want to use a Debian system to investigate a
>> bug on an Ubuntu system. They might begin by downloading some source
>> packages from the Ubuntu mirrors. Since they obtained them from Ubu
e are much more subtle and not
a matter of the system on which the source package is unpacked, so
I suggest leaving those aside for this bug.
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/850156#55
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sk the T.C. to decide what maintscripts should do in these cases.
The general question about which I am seeking advice: does the
T.C. think that Debian can be consistent on service (re)starts in
maintscripts, or is the best we can do to leave it up to package
maintainer discretion?
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ing of my initial mail was ambiguous with regard to
which one of these was being requested.
I would be grateful if you would micromanage just enough that there
isn't anything controversial left for people to disagree about :)
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his. Should be in the next Policy
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Hello,
On Sat 15 Sep 2018 at 07:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> A first draft is below, feedback on wording and content appreciated.
LGTM, thank you.
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to the Policy Manual because of a particular T.C. decision.
It's very complicated and time-consuming to discuss in the abstract, and
it has not actually been a problem in at least the last two to three
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ine of fire when difficult decisions are
> being made, and perhaps because they didn't want to try to become
> experts in everything. But it means that uncontroversial changes can
> languish.
Do you (or anyone else) have any concrete ideas for simplifying the
proposer/seconder scheme, without significantly reducing the oversight
on changes, even uncontroversial ones?
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hat could be solved by
patching the Policy Manual, the T.C. should respond to the question by
opening a bug against the Policy Manual, and suspending the T.C. bug
until it becomes clear whether or not that debian-policy bug is going to
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nger think this would be useful enough to have in Policy, but I'd
like to hear from anyone who disagrees.
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ficult problems. That isn't how
things are, because while there are indeed a lot of hard problems, they
are largely independent of each other, and tackling individual
debian-policy bugs really does improve Debian. However, it is much
harder to see that when half of the open bugs are more than five years
old yet not tagged wontfix.
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t to be dealt with.
>
> While vacillation is undesirable, making it easier and less socially
> costly to handle mistakes, will make it easier to make changes.
I agree that this could help a lot. I have certainly felt hesitation
before committing a change, thinking "maybe we should give people more
time to raise issues with this change", and this would avoid that sort
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on the role of Policy Editor I subscribed myself to the
T.C.'s mailing list. I consider it part of the role to keep abreast of
their activities. In light of the present thread, I'll keep in mind the
need to flag to the T.C. places where decisions they are about to take
might have an impact on
hink could be actionable within our current conception
of the scope of the reform project. But we could come back to them
after the current project has concluded.
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Hello,
On Thu 28 May 2020 at 09:39AM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:
> I don't believe that odyx, philh or tfheen are members anymore; their
> terms expired. marga is the current chair.
Er. Phil is still a member. Sorry :)
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* Elana Hashman
> * Sean Whitton
>
> I am extremely happy to follow their recommendation and hereby
> appoint Elana and Sean as members of the Technical Committee, effective
> immediately.
>
> For reference, their nominations and votes are recorded at:
>
> * https://bugs.debia
might be a reason to use that in
official mail like this one.
> The Technical Committee now consists of:
>
> * Margarita Manterola (chairperson)
> * Philip Hands
> * David Bremner
> * Niko Tyni
> * Gunnar Wolf
> * Simon McVittie
> * Elana Hashman
> * Se
accept a less-than-ideal
approach as necessary when one has put a lot of time into trying to find
workable alternatives.
The thing is, both (a) and (b) are motivated by the same basic desire to
make Debian better and more useful, so perhaps we can focus on that
point of commonality.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00363.html
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; D : Niko Tyni
> E : Gunnar Wolf
> F : Simon McVittie
> G : Sean Whitton
> H : Elana Hashman
>
> ===END===
I vote: B > C > A = D = E = F > G = H
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he Community Team.
So what you are proposing would correspond to the last of our
proposals -- try to remove the meditation role the TC presently has?
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a list of talking points before
the session, and structure the BoF around them.
Please address your questions and talking points to
, preferably in reply to this message for
easier collation.
=
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ugh. They could have just asked for an explanation before rejecting.
You should ensure it's visible in the source package, in
README.{source,Debian} and/or d/changelog.
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binary package split to solve a problem and that's a
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Hello,
On Tue 23 Jun 2020 at 01:47AM +02, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Sean Whitton (2020-06-22 23:26:37)
>> Would someone want to use libjs-katex without nodejs installed?
>
> Yes: Pandoc can produce output which uses katex rendered with the
> Javascript interpret
Hello,
On Fri 12 Jun 2020 at 10:46AM -03, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> So, please [submit your talk, sprint, and BoF proposals][1] for DebConf
> 20 Online.
>
> [1]: https://debconf20.debconf.org/cfp/
Should we try to organise a virtual Meet the Technical Committee?
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y team as mostly about the CoC -- not
just strict violations but conformance with its spirit -- whereas the TC
is about disagreements which do not involve (or do not primarily
involve) CoC issues. In which case, the relationship between the two
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d like
to have a concrete conception of how this could make the TC more useful
before going down that road.
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Dear Ian,
On Sat 18 Jul 2020 at 10:16AM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sat 18 Jul 2020 at 04:29PM +02, Margarita Manterola wrote:
>
>> The doc collects the main problems that have been raised about the TC
>> and a bunch of proposals of what we can do about it. Neither list is
&g
s elogind and not init scripts.
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e need a summary.
Please make another attempt at summarising the dispute. Please also
indicate which of the TC's powers (as granted by the constitution) you
are asking us to make use of.
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Hello,
On Mon 14 Dec 2020 at 10:58AM GMT, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 14:38:24 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>
>> Participants in the thread who have argued on that side of the
>> discussion seem to implicitly rely on the idea that a package maintainer
Hello,
On Tue 15 Dec 2020 at 11:14AM GMT, Mark Hindley wrote:
> Sean and Simon,
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 01:17:30PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> > In the cases where the regression was accidental, ideally, the answer
>> > would be someone calmly and polit
s later perhaps it is more.) On the
other hand, in #922744, there is only an unsubstantiated reference to
tooling support.
I'm going to write to the submitter of #922744 asking for more info.
> Why punt it to you?
> ===
>
> [...]
I think the reasons you give
hich do not rely on the idea that a
package maintainer is equally responsible for regressions anywhere in
their package, or, of course, an argument that I'm misunderstanding
what's being implicitly assumed.
The dependency issue is more challenging.
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led
input from the package maintainer.
We can speculate as to whether the dispute would have proceeded better
or worse with more verbose messages from Michael before now, but it
would be beside the point.
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input from the package maintainer.
We can speculate as to whether the dispute would have proceeded better
or worse with more verbose messages from Michael before now, but it
would be beside the point.
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would necessarily involve the TC interacting with
the GR in a way that the constitution does not permit. We are being
asked to decide about one package, and being invited to generalise in a
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t today's meeting one point which we thought was missing from this
summary was that no-one on the committee has any appetite for overruling
the package maintainer, so it is very unlikely that will be the outcome
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tandalone-tmpfiles
> - Those binaries packages would only ship /bin/systemd-sysusers resp.
> /bin/systemd-tmpfiles and have a Conflicts/Replaces: systemd
From an ftpteam perspective it would probably be preferable to have a
single systemd-standalone binary package which could, if you wanted,
have Provi
what
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Hello Dmitry,
On Wed 21 Oct 2020 at 11:21am +11, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 October 2020 6:16:03 AM AEDT Sean Whitton wrote:
>> I think that my message [1] is what makes you think that the package
>> would not have got through NEW?
>
> It was not your message
Hello,
On Mon 28 Dec 2020 at 12:24AM +01, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 15:39:47 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>
>> On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 07:26PM +02, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> > My reasoning is that init scripts are the end goal, and that elogind is
>> &
not recommend any particular implementation of the migration.
Y: Yes, support only merged-usr in the 'bookworm' release.
N: No, continue to support both layouts in 'bookworm'.
F: Further Discussion
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Hello,
On Mon 25 Jan 2021 at 11:45AM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:
> I call for votes on the following ballot to resolve #978636. The voting
> period starts immediately and lasts for up to one week, or until the
> outcome is no longer in doubt (§6.3.1).
>
> ===BEGIN
> The T
init-scripts if for whatever reason it ends up being
> necessary?
Once the package has cleared NEW, we should definitely mention it in
Policy; whether we say anything to discourage dropping init scripts is
trickier however.
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Notes from the previous monthly meeting:
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* Any other business
Notes from the previous monthly meeting:
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From 4e667d4efa461770e83c842bcd737380616c934e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Whitton
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:53:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Be explicit that source of truth for TC activities is the BTS
See minutes of TC meeting on 12th May 2021 for discussion:
<h
a quick test group video call
* Any other business
Notes from the previous monthly meeting:
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Hello,
On Thu 04 Feb 2021 at 03:20PM -08, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:01:02 -0700 Sean Whitton
> wrote:
>> On Mon 07 Nov 2011 at 06:34PM +01, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> > I agree it could be done by default with compat 9. Will decrease the
>> >
rete tooling problems
which would give us good reasons to disable compression.
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On Mon 15 Mar 2021 at 10:30AM +01, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> ===BEGIN===
>
> The chair of the Debian Technical Committee will be:
>
> A : Margarita Manterola
> B : David Bremner
> C : Niko Tyni
> D : Gunnar Wolf
> E : Simon McVittie
> F : Sean Whi
on your debugging to go out to a web service.
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Hello,
On Sun 07 Mar 2021 at 03:50PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:
> This is not much good if your network is weak or you're offline, or you
> don't want information on your debugging to go out to a web service.
What I mean is: debuginfod is great in many scenarios, but we should
probably care
you think you could do some grouping -- e.g. put all the kde packages
together and see what that comes to? A lot of debugging scenarios are
going to involve groups of packages like these.
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or not?
* Moving forward with our reimagining the TC tasks
* Any other business
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>
> ===END
I vote
A > B
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server available?
Proposed agenda:
* Finalising private communication proposal
* Finalising early invocation proposal
* Any other business
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Hello,
On Thu 16 Sep 2021 at 03:02PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:
> The TC can't do detailed design work, so without such a proposal on the
> table, we're left deciding between a complete reversion and doing
> nothing at all. It would be good to have more options.
This isn't quite ri
o would
(ii) include a transition/deprecation plan which would impose less of a
burden, from your point of view, on Debian contributors?
The TC can't do detailed design work, so without such a proposal on the
table, we're left deciding between a complete reversion and doing
nothing at all. It would be good to have more options.
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? If you agree, can you let us know
the arrangements for talkmeister training this year? We assigned me to
this task, and marga would like to get trained too as a backup.
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you see
removing cjwatson-which from debianutils as achieving?
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(2) and renumber succeeding items.
=== End Resolutions ===
A: Issue Resolution A
B: Issue Resolution B
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On Wed 20 Oct 2021 at 12:30PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:
> === Resolution A ===
>
> The Technical Committee resolves:
>
> 1. The debianutils package must continue to provide the which(1) program
>until a compatible utility is available in a package that is at least
>t
filesystem
> to the corresponding aliased directory in /usr, which can result in
> the affected file disappearing. This can be avoided by not changing
> the file's logical location until the beginning of the Debian 13
> development cycle, after the transition to merged-/usr is complete.
>
> - On non-merged-/usr systems, a failure mode has been observed in which
> older shared libraries in /lib/MULTIARCH are not always deleted as
> intended, and interfere with correct loading of the newer shared
> library in /usr/lib/MULTIARCH. This can be avoided by not changing
> the file's logical location until the beginning of the Debian 13
> development cycle, after the transition to merged-/usr is complete,
> at which point ldconfig(8) will choose the newer library even if
> this occurs.
>
> This recommendation applies until Debian 12 is released, or until
> a subsequent Technical Committee resolution rescinds it, whichever
> is sooner. We intend to rescind this recommendation if mechanisms are
> developed to avoid the undesired side-effects of moving files from the
> root filesystem into /usr.
>
> end text to be voted on
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Hello,
On Wed 13 Oct 2021 at 07:37PM -03, David Bremner wrote:
> Sean Whitton writes:
>
>> 1. Offer advice:
>
>>The debianutils package must continue to provide the which(1) program
>>until a compatible utility is available in a package that is at least
&
Hello,
On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 05:50AM GMT, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 01:05:50PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>>The debianutils package must continue to provide the tempfile(1)
>>program until a compatible utility is available in a package that is
Hello Simon,
On Tue 05 Oct 2021 at 07:48PM +01, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 at 16:52:15 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> On Mon 27 Sep 2021 at 10:59AM +01, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 at 15:35:11 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> >> (
with such a move, and any
programs that have already been moved must be moved back. In
particular, this means debianutils must contain /bin/run-parts and
/sbin/installkernel for the time being.
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Hello,
On Mon 27 Sep 2021 at 10:59AM +01, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 at 15:35:11 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> You write:
>>
>> >> - Because Debian 11 installations with the non-merged-/usr layout already
>> >> exist, all packages
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after those people join, to avoid
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` in OFTC
- If you prefer, mail a brief summary
- To our mailing list (public, archived: `debian-ctte@lists.debian.org`)
- To our private alias (`debian-ctte-priv...@debian.org`)
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Hello Raphael,
On Tue 02 Nov 2021 at 08:31AM +01, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2021, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> Of course we should be exploring the new avenues that you mention. But
>> becoming more willing to break unstable/testing than we are at present
>> might
or the sake of making major changes would
always count as going backwards.
Of course we should be exploring the new avenues that you mention. But
becoming more willing to break unstable/testing than we are at present
might also be good for our project.
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Hello,
On Tue 09 Nov 2021 at 04:03PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Our monthly meeting is scheduled to take place Wednesday at 6pm UTC, but
> due to DST, ehashman can't attend unless we move it to 7pm. Three other
> people say they prefer 7pm. bremner won't join this time. So unless
>
Hello,
As discussed at the meeting, could the six remaining members as of 1st
January kindly fill this in: <https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/G-eGiXMZmQ/>
All times UTC.
We'll probably need to do this again once we fill the two empty seats,
hopefully for February's meeting.
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Hello,
On Mon 03 Jan 2022 at 10:52AM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Our monthly meeting is scheduled for **Friday** 14th at **1800Z**.
>
> Agenda:
>
> * Review of previous meeting AIs
> * Recruitment
> * Any other business
Insert "Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of r
e util-linux
* Any other business
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Minutes of previous meeting:
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ia-aliased-dirs.
> dpkg: warning: See <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#broken-usrmerge>.
Does this happen just when configuring dpkg.deb here, or does the
warning get issued at other times, have you seen?
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