Bug#594274: debian-policy: Don't track generated README documents in VCS

2010-08-25 Thread Ben Finney
Andrew McMillan and...@morphoss.com writes: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 14:28 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I couldn't find a way to tell Git “these files are removed from the repository, propagate that fact to other repositories”. (Git doesn't seem to track file removal as such, making me wonder if

Bug#592610: 7.3/7.4/7.6: Usage of Breaks and Conflicts unclear and contradictive

2010-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eugene V. Lyubimkin jac...@debian.org writes: [ sorry for not proper 'mail-reply', used wrong mail address before ] Huh? The presense of Replaces allows the two to be both unpacked. The Repalces specifically disables the file conflict. Replaces is one-way dependency, Breaks is two-way one.

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-25 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 21.08.2010 08:36, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.txt b/virtual-package-names-list.txt index 9ba66e5..2308d39 100644 --- a/virtual-package-names-list.txt +++ b/virtual-package-names-list.txt @@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ News and

Re: Build-depends for arch independent files

2010-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes: On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 at 20:22:17 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: This means that architecture restrictions must not be used in binary relationship fields for architecture-independent packages (Architecture: all). This just forbids the following:

Bug#218897: Explicitily disallow adding local diversion by package

2010-08-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 10:30:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 9fe7158..c7f2a4e 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -1214,9 +1214,11 @@ /p p - You should not use prgndpkg-divert/prgn on a file - belonging to

Bug#218897: Explicitily disallow adding local diversion by package

2010-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: Ok, even if this has been merged already and closed, I've been meaning to mention something I've considered implementing. dpkg-divert would get the package name from the DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE environment variable, which would change the default of

Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.

2010-08-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:23:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : I have been reading §5.1 (Syntax of control files) many times recently, and would like propose clarifications about a couple of points. If consensus emerges, I will write a patch. Non-wrappable field values

Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.

2010-08-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:05 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:23:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : I have been reading §5.1 (Syntax of control files) many times recently, and would like propose clarifications about a couple of points. If consensus emerges,