Advice for how to make new things policy (was: ':any' syntax in package names in jessie/sid Packages)

2014-04-20 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi all, Quoting Stuart Prescott (2014-04-20 16:58:21) As xnox says there is still some pending changes around the interpreter problem, as described here: https://wiki.debian.org/HelmutGrohne/MultiarchSpecChanges And that debate is part of the reason this stuff hasn't been considered

Re: Advice for how to make new things policy (was: ':any' syntax in package names in jessie/sid Packages)

2014-04-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 07:53:57PM +0200, Johannes Schauer a écrit : I wholeheartedly agree with Stuart's email. I would love to see policy lead the way. But as somebody who comes up with new things that might end up in policy: how to proceed? My current approach is to write countless mails

Re: Advice for how to make new things policy (was: ':any' syntax in package names in jessie/sid Packages)

2014-04-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, Charles Plessy wrote: things are too slow or not happening is the lack of manpower. See for example the documentation of the Dpkg triggers: we miss only one single Debian Developer to review the discussion and the patch in #582109 (I even offered to go piece by piece, see

Re: Advice for how to make new things policy (was: ':any' syntax in package names in jessie/sid Packages)

2014-04-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:06:00PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, Charles Plessy wrote: things are too slow or not happening is the lack of manpower. See for example the documentation of the Dpkg triggers: we miss only one single Debian Developer to