Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-02-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 06:15:55PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : para Remaining lines: if left blank here, the file -emphasismust/emphasis include one or morelink +emphasismust/emphasis include a link

Re: Bug#658209: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:14:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Are there other blocking issues with this DEP ? If not, I will mark it accepted after two week-ends. I have some lingering concern that the spec isn't sufficiently clear and

Re: Bug#658209: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: would it help if I would split the differences between the version in the DEP website and the Policy's Git repository in patches that you could apply as you review the text ? Or is one monolithic patch acceptable ? One monolithic patch is fine. I

Re: Bug#658209: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 06:42:05AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : One monolithic patch is fine. I was planning on updating to the current state of the Subversion repository when the DEP is final since I know there's development that's been done there that hasn't been tracked in the Policy

Bug#578421: virtual-packages: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine

2012-02-11 Thread Bill Allombert
tags 578421 + pending quit On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:48:49PM -0800, tony mancill wrote: +1, AOL, re-seconded... Thanks to Niels and Bill for helping move this forward. Seconded then. I have commited the change to the debian-policy repository. Cheers, -- Bill. ballo...@debian.org Imagine a

Processed: Re: Bug#578421: virtual-packages: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine

2012-02-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 04:41:28PM +, Ximin Luo a écrit : Is there somewhere else you guys are discussing this? Some other mailing list, or an IRC channel? Dear Ximin, in practice, discussions take place where they started, that is usually debian-project@, debian-devel@, debian-policy@

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2012-02-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: #Le Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 01:51:07AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System a écrit : # # tag 658209 informative discussion # Unknown tag/s: informative, discussion. user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org Setting user to

Bug#658009: debian-policy: dpkg-buildpackage -rroot-command out of date

2012-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:56:52PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : Sam Morris wrote: C.1.2 says: If no root-command is supplied then dpkg-buildpackage will take no special action to gain root privilege, so that for most packages it will have to be invoked as root to start

Bug#658009: debian-policy: dpkg-buildpackage -rroot-command out of date

2012-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I think that it is a bit drastic. In the case of dpkg-buildpackage, I agree that we should not repeat information found in the manual page, but I like the short explanations on the purpose of each Dpkg helper tool. We've been wanting to remove those

Bug#658009: debian-policy: dpkg-buildpackage -rroot-command out of date

2012-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 07:45:08PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I think that it is a bit drastic. In the case of dpkg-buildpackage, I agree that we should not repeat information found in the manual page, but I like the short explanations on the