List of Policy delegates

2009-04-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Colin Watson (Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:51:55 +0100): Hey, I've committed a fix to our git repository, of course Oh, I see RT#1138 now, though I can't seem to find a mail mentioning these delegations/incorporations, but that could just be me not keeping up with may mail. Anyway, I wrote to ask if

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Russ Allbery (Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:33:41 -0700): I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove /var/games and it looks like it would be a bit annoying (at the least, require adding purge code to all games that put files in /var/games that would usually never be triggered).

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-07 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Thorsten Glaser (Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:54:59 +): Except the ton which sets LC_ALL=C to get sane (parsable, dependable, historically compatible) output. These would then unset all other LC_* and LANG and LANGUAGE, and only set LC_CTYPE to C.UTF-8 to get old behaviour but with UTF-8 (and

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-07 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Steve Langasek (Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:09:17 -0700): On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:33:35PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: If you need a specific locale (as seems from mksh, not sure if it is a bug in that program), you need to set it. You can only set a locale on a glibc-based system if it’s

Bug#519941: 10.2 Libraries recommends use of /etc/ld.so.conf instead of /etc/ld.so.conf.d

2009-03-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Steve Langasek [Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:52:10 -0700]: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:40:36AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Debian policy 10.2 Libraries says: | Packages containing shared libraries that may be linked to by other | packages' binaries, but which for some compelling reason can

Bug#446712: [PATCH] Allow comments in debian/control (bug#446712)

2009-03-01 Thread Adeodato Simó
to that effect. The rationale is that it's very common for files that accept #-style comments to accept them if # is preceded by whitespace, but this is not the case in control files. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Bug#473439: pick consistent terminology for category/component/area

2009-01-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
component is mentioned in a footnote, as your patch does. Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Pablo Milanés - Libertad

Re: Debian version numbers and strcmp()

2009-01-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
Thanks everybody for their responses. I'll learn to live with this (small) unhappiness. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org The first step on the road to wisdom

Debian version numbers and strcmp()

2009-01-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
Policy talks about comparison.) Is there a reason for it to be this way? Is there a reason that would advise against changing it? -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org - I love you

Bug#509935: decide whether Uploaders is parsed per RFC 5322

2009-01-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
I think would be a loss, since that works for all other fields. (Oh, and if we do without commas, we should do without quoting as well IMHO.) Just my 2¢, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato

Re: directory for icons

2007-09-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
policies about exactly where. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Alaska y Dinarama - Cebras -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
the current version (e.g. 1.2-3 as 1.2-4, which is bigger than 1.2-3.1). Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol

Bug#378386: [PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in /usr/share/common-licenses

2006-07-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
marked by pending by one of the editors. Thanks! -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org We learned that the Linux load average rolls over at 1024. And we actually found this out

Re: Including more licenses in 12.5

2006-06-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
laptop this number is 268.) This is because one and each of the binary packages coming from kde.org (of which there are around 500) ships a copy of the GFDL. I would certainly like to see this license shipped as a common license. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato

outdated changelog timestamps (was Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields)

2006-06-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
dist=UNRELEASED and updating the timestamp with each commit (or not doing, and risk forgetting to do so the last time before uploading). Cheers, (I guess followups should go to -devel and not -policy.) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

2006-06-09 Thread Adeodato Simó
packages of mine (in the .dsc, though, not in the binaries, so it's only in the Sources file). -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Joaquín Sabina - El rocanrol

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] ttf-lang-* virtual packages

2006-03-20 Thread Adeodato Simó
in the archive: 11 Number of v.p. NOT defined in Policy but provided in the archive: 1549 HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been

Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Wouter Verhelst [Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:14:26 +0100]: Yes, but only if packages who declare build-depends-indep without having build-arch exist. Anyone feel like finding that out? ;-) Simon run a test through the archive prior to sending his mail, to find out. -- Adeodato Simó

Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep} should fail with error code 2 - must

2006-01-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
or ask for a policy change. Or move doxygen from Build-Depends to Build-Depends-Indep, and gracefully ignore its absence in the build target, if possible. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato

Bug#329762: Relaxation and documentation of the -fPIC constraint

2005-10-03 Thread Adeodato Simó
, -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA6AE621 Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to set a bad example. -- La Rochefoucauld, Maxims -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Procedure to add sub-policies

2005-07-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
of those domain experts? At first sight, I think the second option makes more sense, since the changes are usually discussed and agreed upon in their own list. Though they could nevertheless be posted to -policy for a quick review. -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK

Re: Bug#291026: debhelper uses which

2005-05-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Thomas Hood [Fri, 13 May 2005 23:54:52 +0200]: (Is there a way to browse debian-policy in CVS?) If I understood correctly, http://cvs.debian.org/?cvsroot=debian-policy may be what you want. -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA6AE621 It is impossible to make