At 2023-09-10T21:47:36+0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> Quoting Bill Allombert (2023-09-10 18:29:36)
> > On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 09:00:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > Jonas Smedegaard writes:
> > > >> Hmm, how about providing license-common package and that
> > > >> depends
At 2018-11-13T17:02:49+, Ian Jackson wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson writes ("Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against
> policy?"):
> > Not reopening, but I have some questions for the Policy team.
> ...
> > I could have sworn you were incorrect, but sure eno
st -f "$F"; then file "$F"; dpkg -S "$F"; fi; done
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/usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz: broken symbolic link to gdb.1.gz
rust-gdb: /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz
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>
> G. Branden Robinson:
> > Package: rust-gdb
> > Version: 1.28.0+
deliberations.
Debian webmasters,
Please update http://www.debian.org/intro/organization accordingly.
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:01:25AM -0600, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
So you are going to implement this even if the discussion is not already
closed. Of course you can implement it anyway, but it's unfair to ignore what
Branden Robinson asked:
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:26:24AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:
Uh, what if I want to put the following at the very top of my
debian/control file?
# $Id$
I was given to understand that dpkg 1.10.15 or so would be just fine
with it, whereas
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:24:09PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:02:56PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Joy proposed to put such information in debian/control instead.
The idea of a new file was to ease parsing
.
debian/rules.in is almost impossible, but debian/control can be
generated by debian/rules.
Also, having to parse debian/control to determine what format
debian/control might be in is a bad idea.
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) of the source package.
$ cat debian/interface
rules: rules-interface1, rules-interface2, ...
control: control-interface1, control-interface1, ...
I don't have a problem with this at all.
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:55:36PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
Branden Robinson writes (Re: Bug#218530: Suboptimal conditional rune for
initscripts):
Ah, I see the reason:
...
[127] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % ash
$ type ls
ls is /bin/ls
But you don't, because it has a nonzero exit status
think.
Oh, come on. It's obvious from context that he meant contention, and
misspoke.
Not all of us on these lists are native English speakers, but that
doesn't excuse deliberate misconstrual of other people's words.
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argument that I find
persuasive, I would continue to support a proposal to loosen the
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a non-makefile.
(itinerant policy-editor hat on)
Me neither.
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short description should not be a sentence. The long
description should be one sentence at the VERY least.
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:02:17PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:50:41AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
I believe package management utilities are allowed to omit the short
description in favor of the long one for interface considerations.
Why, though? What
maintain.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
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Seconded. Until and unless I say otherwise, the footnote text can be
amended arbitrarily, or even deleted entirely, without invalidating my
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:38:51PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
Ok. Redirecting to debian-policy.
Please follow the Policy amendment process.
apt-get install debian-policy
and then view:
file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy-process.html/index.html
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one, at that.
I reiterate my position from last year:
* decouple the Policy manual from bug severities
* decouple bug severities from release management
Neither of these mean that the Policy Manual or Release Manager have to
give up any power whatsoever.
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?archive=nobug=97671
(scroll down about 25% and start reading).
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Watson is on the right.
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on these virtual packages, has a well known spot to go to to
get the list of established virtual package names.
I do think we need to re-write the para to state that the list
is merely a registry, of sorts, of established virtual package names.
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enough to mandate /etc, but suggesting the use of
symlinks from /usr might make life a bit easier for some maintainers who
are aghast at the thought of rewriting upstream to use /etc natively.
*cough*143825*cough*
*cough*Patches welcome.*cough*
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tangent and wax preachy about how they'd pedantically do things if we
wen're using SGML.
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:56:51AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:39:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
b) what severity such bugs should be
I strongly disagree with this. I wrote up an extensive explanation of
why recently:
http://lists.debian.org
are useful.
b) what severity such bugs should be
I strongly disagree with this. I wrote up an extensive explanation of
why recently:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2002/debian-ctte-200211/msg00027.html
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:30:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:41:15AM +, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
I suggest that the following patch be applied to policy in order to
resolve this issue:
--- policy.sgml.old Fri Nov 15 09:30:47 2002
+++ policy.sgml
.
Seconded.
I second this as long as people swear to stop bitching at me about what
window manager ends up as the default. :-P
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:13:50PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Branden == Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Branden Well, according to the FHS, you shouldn't be putting variabel data
in
Branden /usr at all:
It is not variable data. It is static data; that does
.
[...]
They are not even accessed by the user directly, and certainly
not by emacs.
This description unambiguously screams /var/log to me. Clearly your
mileage varies.
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+ interpreting the entirity of the rest of the command
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+ manner that ttxterm/tt does.
/p/item
itemp
Support the command-line option tt-T
Seconded.
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it
will end.
How long do you propose to wait before declaring this proposal
non-objectionable?
So far I haven't seen any complaints that wouldn't be addressed by Colin
Watson's planned update to the man-db package.
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:57:43AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Branden == Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Branden I don't have one any more specific than somewhere under /var.
Branden /var/log doesn't work if the byte-compiler isn't running as the root
Branden user
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:17:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Branden == Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Branden On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:10:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
You can decide not to log for _your_ package. I certainly am
going to continue to log
the conclusion of this matter to one of the other editors
(Julian, Josip, or me).
(...ah, this post was worth it just for the wicked grin I had on my face
while writing it. :) )
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against making less work for the editor.
I don't think this is a big deal, really, do you?
I think now that we have Josip as an editor, he can pick any SGML diffs
free of nits. :)
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On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:10:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
You can decide not to log for _your_ package. I certainly am
going to continue to log the compilation for mine.
Well, will you consider placing them in a more FHS-friendly location
than /usr/share? :)
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a UseFHS expando
and set a bunch of defines, probably in X11.tmpl, if it evaluates true.
Then of course one has to change linux.cf and any other .cf for which
the FHS might be relevant.
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kinds of things for hisself [sic]; Debian tries to
make such things straightforward.
How about a policy proposal that simply clears up the redundancy rather
than pursuing a private agenda as a bonus?
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of EWMH
support instead.
Depends: metacity | ewmh-x-window-manager | x-window-manager? Ugh.
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x-terminal-emulator option, eh?
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j
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of the following targets is invoked:
- `build', `build-indep', `binary' and `binary-indep'.
+ `build', `build-indep', `clean', `binary' and `binary-indep'.
Seconded.
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:43:06PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
Well, are we basically in rough consensus about this now?
Here's an updated patch which just makes the priority increase 20
instead of 30.
I don't object.
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, even if it is a little more complicated.
I am tempted to agree.
(I still want to hear what Branden has to say about all of this, too.)
I haven't firmly made up my mind yet.
Can someone tell me what the relationship between WMSP, netwm, and
the EWMH spec is?
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to be enhancing
the user experience in Debian by doing away with these meaningless
virtual packages!
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a module for the
Dotfile Generator
dict-client Any package providing clients for the Dictionary Server
I am seeking seconds for this proposal.
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 05:09:06PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:21:15AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Etherconf never invokes anything other than ifup and ifdown. It's ifup
that has the smarts. I know it already handles dhcp-client and pump;
i think (but may
, many people invent
square wheels.
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: debconf, ifupdown (= 0.6.4), dhcp-client | dhcp3-client,
libconfhelper-perl
Is this acceptable, or is there some deep down dependency on
dhcp-client 2.x?
IMO dhcp-client should be a virtual package Provided by dhcp3-client,
udhcpc, and pump.
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:36:58AM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:06:34AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
IMO dhcp-client should be a virtual package Provided by dhcp3-client,
udhcpc, and pump.
I also concur. Does that mean that dhcp-client becomes
dhcp2-client
udhcpc has nothing to
do with package dependencies and thus nothing to do with virtual
packages.
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to achieve consensus on
subjective issues. I think our approach to the twin nemeses of policy
and release management need to reflect this fact better than they do at
present.
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:49:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
If you can't justify a change without reference to policy, then you
shouldn't be suggesting it,
!?
No more wishlist bugs?
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:09:17AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
I didn't realize that policy compliance was some sort of buddy-boy
system.
/me watches comprehension slowly, slowly wash over Clint's
countenance...
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the latest flamewar that moved it in or out of
/usr or */sbin.
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$r; print $r\n' $1;
}
fi
Yeah, well, I'll be happy to change this once we have some official
Policy, or an offical Best Current Practice statement.
I'll let the shell maintainers finish their penis war first, though.
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package Depend on netcat, but until Decklin moved nc
to /bin, the init script *still* wouldn't work.
Therefore, I think we really do have two separate issues here.
Essentiality and /usrness. This points up the even greater need for a
definition of a minimal system.
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:07:23PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Further, /bin/bash is available and provides both type and test as
builtins.
Bad news for any Debian port that wants to use ash as its Essential
shell, then.
I hate to break
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:16:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:17:45PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
So why waste everyone's time discussing it rather than just using sed
or /bin/sh and getting on with your life?
Because this isn't just about me, and it isn't
in it depending on how early in the boot sequence you
are. (At least, as I understand the Hurd, which is not very well.)
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On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:37:40PM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote:
| On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:13:23PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
| If you're up to it, however, I would like to challenge you to implement
| /usr/bin/tr(1) in /bin/sed(1). I few of us on IRC tried several days
| ago
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:20:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:35:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:55:23PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
Anyway, there are already plenty of tools in /bin capable of performing
the task of cut(1).
Sure
sure you're already aware of this, as you are of
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200205/msg02540.html.
I'm CCing debian-policy as a means of RFD. I invite your participation
if you have something to contribute beyond don't do that, then.
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A couple of points regarding policy 10.3.3 (Managing the links):
1) The policy does not mention that if your package changes its
runlevels or priority, that update-rc.d package remove MUST be called,
or update-rc.d will leave the existing
it is doing.
Let me be perfectly clear:
KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF XFREE86.
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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:46:40PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 04:06:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Let me be perfectly clear:
KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF XFREE86.
You do realize this is now going to be quoted out of context and used in all
sorts of ad hominem
. Of course, I am hardly unbiased as I pretty
consistently and deliberately use command -v in my maintainer scripts.
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forward for
woody + 1.
IMO, anyone who uses zsh for /bin/sh is quite insane. ;-)
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want, but that doesn't mean that the Debian packaging infrastructure
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requirement
upon amendment of the Social Contract or DFSG are, perhaps, not so
ill-founded.
Even a 4:1 supermajority is too low. Amazing.
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I second this. We should also discourage capitalization of the first
letter in a package description. (I.e., don't make it a capital letter
if it wouldn't be one in the middle of a sentence.)
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While I agree with you vis a vis Policy, I have no objection to such a
thing, speaking as the maintainer of a very large, DBS-using package.
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:11:06AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:37:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:04:39PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
wrote:
You are wrong here. Sample:
- I want to provide
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 09:08:16AM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
In policy section 2.3.8.1 there are two inconsistent spellings of the
word dependencies as dependancies. While correct according to dict
[gcide],
Then that's a bug in gcide; please file one.
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G. Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:19:51AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote:
To pseudo-quote Anthony Towns on this one: policy is not a stick to
hit lazy maintainers with.
Oh, come now. *Anything* can be a stick to hit lazy maintainers with.
Just so long as they get beaten.
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G. Branden Robinson
a given enviroment for *all* programs.
/etc/environment
Santiago is right about this. Yes, it frightens me to hear myself saying that.
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:46:32PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I intend to. I'm sorry to offend you by asking people more familiar
with the GNU Emacs Manual to assist.
What bugs me is that you've now issued *TWO* proposals without
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