On Tue, 01 Jun 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
Here is proposed wording, which hopefully reflects the subsequent
discussion. I'm looking for seconds.
[...]
p
+ Be careful of using ttset -e/tt in fileinit.d/file
+ scripts. Writing correct fileinit.d/file scripts requires
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:47:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs
described by this paragraph (§4.4 in Policy 3.8.4) use four digits. This patch
replaces the RFC 822 by its latest evolution, RFC 5322, that specifies a date
On 02.06.2010 14:59, Bill Allombert wrote:
What is the diffrence between RFC5322 and RFC2822 time format ?
RFC 5322 was only released in 2008, so the standard that packages
actually follow is clearly RFC2822.
I would prefer if we keep a reference to RFC2822 because is is
more well known than
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Jakub Wilk uba...@users.sf.net writes:
According to upgrading-checklist, support for alternative changelog
formats were removed in Debian Policy 3.8.1.0. However, appendix C still
documents their usage:
$ zgrep -A4 'alternative changelog'
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz C.2.2.1.
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes:
The second footnote reads:
[2] Ordinary files installed by `dpkg' (as opposed to `conffile's and
other similar objects) normally have their permissions reset to the
distributed permissions when the package is reinstalled. However, the
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Lars Wirzenius l...@catalyst.net.nz writes:
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-perl.html
says in section 2.2 (Base Package):
As Perl is currently used by such things as update-alternatives and
some package maintainer scripts, it must be priority required and
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Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes:
The list of all sections is defined in policy:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections
As for descriptions of each of those, you could use:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/
But there are 2 additional entries in the
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Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes:
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (01/06/2010):
+Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
+the source will build an architecture-dependent package on
+the union of the lists of architectures from the expansion
+
Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes:
There are some differences (usually backward compatible). The main
difference I see is: RFC 5322 doesn't permit comments before and after
month name, so really an insignificant change for Debian.
OTOH we don'twant to have the full range of
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:42:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Here is proposed wording, which hopefully reflects the subsequent
discussion. I'm looking for seconds.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index d16df70..1871d4c 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -6011,7 +6011,7 @@
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:59 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:47:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs
described by this paragraph (§4.4 in Policy 3.8.4) use four digits. This
patch
replaces the RFC
I thing that this issue became more serious with the lintian-based
automatic rejection of incoming packages.
Some days ago an upload (illuminator_0.11.0-4_amd64.changes) got rejected
because of this pending issue.
(from the reject mail)
Reject Reasons:
illuminator source: lintian output:
Riccardo Stagni unric...@email.it writes:
I thing that this issue became more serious with the lintian-based
automatic rejection of incoming packages.
Some days ago an upload (illuminator_0.11.0-4_amd64.changes) got rejected
because of this pending issue.
(from the reject mail)
Reject
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:24:22PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I thought we established the last time around on this discussion that Adam
needs to leave the comma off in his name for the time being.
I wasn't aware of this, reading the bug report it looked to me that the
discussion was stopped
Riccardo Stagni unric...@email.it writes:
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:24:22PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I thought we established the last time around on this discussion that Adam
needs to leave the comma off in his name for the time being.
I wasn't aware of this, reading the bug report it
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:28:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
+ p
+ Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
+the source will build an architecture-dependent package on
+the union of the
This is a dup of bug 499167.
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Bug#499167: developers-reference: please explain deb/debian/ds suffixes in
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Bug#560287: debian-policy: document dfsg, ds and debian suffix of version
numbers when repackaging
Merged 499167 560287.
thanks
Stopping
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:24 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Riccardo Stagni unric...@email.it writes:
I thing that this issue became more serious with the lintian-based
automatic rejection of incoming packages.
Some days ago an upload (illuminator_0.11.0-4_amd64.changes) got rejected
because
Adam C Powell IV hazel...@debian.org writes:
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:24 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I thought we established the last time around on this discussion that
Adam needs to leave the comma off in his name for the time being.
I don't remember receiving this advice.
Ack, sorry.
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 00:06:39 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:28:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
+ p
+ Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
+the source will build an
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