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Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote:
Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the
package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script the
consensus that this was the best option available.
You may
On Thu, Nov 12 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote:
Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the
package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script the
consensus that this was
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary
package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in
Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This
seems like something that
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Lintian has a tag:
Tag: symlink-has-too-many-up-segments
Severity: serious
Certainty: certain
Ref: policy 10.5
Info: The symlink references a directory beyond the root directory /.
for symlinks that contain so many ../ segments that
Seconded.
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 13:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote:
Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the
package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Unless I'm missing something, and I did a text search through Policy,
Policy is currently silent on the topic of statically linked binaries
other than a brief mention in a footnote on convenience copies of code.
I believe we should say
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
I again may be missing something, but I don't believe there's anywhere in
Policy that says the obvious things about architecture-independent packages
versus architecture-dependent packages. I'm thinking of the basic
definitional things
Andrew McMillan and...@morphoss.com writes:
Seconded.
Thanks to you and Manoj. Pushed.
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Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (12/11/2009):
Architecture-independent packages are packages that will function on
any architecture supported by Debian.
While I can think of plenty of Perl packages where it's about
“functioning”, there are also a lot of data packages around, so I'm
not sure
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Lintian has the following tag:
Tag: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath
Severity: serious
Certainty: possible
Ref: http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue
Info: The binary or shared library sets RPATH. This overrides the normal
library search
Manoj, when I tried to rebuild upgrading-checklist, I got the following
error:
% /usr/bin/emacs23 --batch -Q -l ./README-css.el -l org --visit
upgrading-checklist.org --funcall org-export-as-ascii
Loading vc-git...
Autoloading failed to define function org-export-as-ascii
Running:
%
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
In addition, Lintian also warns if a control file is empty or if it's not
one of the known set of control files, which at present is:
clilibs config control conffiles md5sums postinst preinst postrm
prerm shlibs
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Bug #469154 [developers-reference] chapter 4.10: PTS summary description needs
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Added tag(s) patch.
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tags 554054 + patch
tags 554077 + patch
thanks
Here are some proposed patches to clarify the status of upload queues, both
also available in
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/developers-reference.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/misc.
The second depends on the first.
Regards,
S
From: Simon
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary
package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in
Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This
seems like something
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes:
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
In addition, Lintian also warns if a control file is empty or if it's not
one of the known set of control files, which at present is:
clilibs config control conffiles md5sums
tags 469154 + patch
thanks
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 at 17:15:09 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
* Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org [2008-03-11 14:59:09 CET]:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
summary
Regular summary emails about the package's status. Currently, only
tags 555685 + patch
severity 555685 minor
thanks
While I'm doing trivial patches anyway...
(For my own convenience I'm collecting patches into a git-svn branch; feel free
to take these patches from that repository, or ignore it, as you see fit.)
From: Simon McVittie s...@debian.org
Date: Fri,
tags 540231 + patch
thanks
How about this for a patch?
(For my own convenience I'm collecting patches into a git-svn branch; feel free
to take these patches from that repository, or ignore it, as you see fit.)
From: Simon McVittie s...@debian.org
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:46:48 + (+)
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
The requirements for the copyright file in binary and source packages
has been the source of a lot of confusion and a lot of bug reports
against Lintian. This is an attempt to state the requirements more
specifically and more completely.
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
The requirements for the copyright file in binary and source packages
has been the source of a lot of confusion and a lot of bug reports
against Lintian. This is an attempt to state the requirements more
specifically and more completely.
This also adds
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:46:21PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
+ If a source package produces
+ binary packages with separate copyright files (if, for instance,
+ different binary packages produced from one source package have
+ substantially different distribution
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes:
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:46:21PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
+ If a source package produces
+ binary packages with separate copyright files (if, for instance,
+ different binary packages produced from one source package have
+
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:22:37PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes:
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:46:21PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
+If a source package produces
+binary packages with separate copyright files (if, for instance,
+
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes:
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:22:37PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
It's an additional requirement over the current Policy statement, but
according to previous statements by ftpmaster, it reflects what's
currently being enforced during NEW processing.
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Here is an updated version of the patch that corrects or clarifies a few
other places in Policy.
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commit 10a36221dbdef0417c8fe5dd9153843fc160acd7
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Thu Nov 12 20:39:41 2009
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