On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:50:17PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On another thread, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Could we automatically define some @linux@ or @any-i386@ variables the
same way shlidbs or other substitutions work?
That's
Hi!
[ CCing #400322 for the additional data. ]
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 20:25:11 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl (09/02/2010):
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl (09/02/2010):
This format is not (yet) allowed by
Hi!
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 10:51:56 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.4.0
Severity: normal
to test the actual behaviour of dpkg for this situation I created the
following 5 packages:
[...]
Test 1
==
I start with version 1 installed and update to
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:42:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Here is proposed wording, which hopefully reflects the subsequent
discussion. I'm looking for seconds.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index d16df70..1871d4c 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -6011,7 +6011,7 @@
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:28:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
+ p
+ Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
+the source will build an architecture-dependent package on
+the union of the
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 00:06:39 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:28:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
+ p
+ Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
+the source will build
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 12:51:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes:
what does this change mean for essential packages that want to prompt
the user when debconf isn't available? E.g. libc6.postinst tries to use
debconf, and if that's not available and
Hi!
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:34:32 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I'm looking for seconds or further discussion if people don't believe that
this is the right direction to go.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index af00c0e..3f6b82d 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -3557,15
Hi!
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:56:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Okay, here's another try at this patch that removes some extraneous
information that it sounds like we shouldn't get into, from this message
and your other message, and tries to simplify the wording to address the
issue raised in
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 13:09:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes:
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:56:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
p
In the main filedebian/control/file file in the source
- package, this field may contain the special value
Hi!
Here's a review from a non-native speaker.
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 17:40:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index bad28af..3d5334d 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -804,6 +804,35 @@
in the tt.deb/tt file format.
/p
+ p
Hi!
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:28:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Tobias Frost t...@frost.de writes:
Looking at #262257, as an exampple, there are packages which declares
conflicts for whatever reason. However, the reason is NOT, that thec
packages could not co-existent on the same system (For
Hi!
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 22:26:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
If this already works, we should document it, since it can be quite
useful. Here's an attempt at wording. Please check this and make sure
that I'm correctly documenting what works.
Do architecture restrictions work with
Hi!
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 08:59:24 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I propose the following patch for this bug instead in order to get it
clear of this discussion. We can always go back and sort out whether it
should use invoke-rc.d after we work through the other bug.
Does this look okay?
Hi!
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:36:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Here, many years later, is a proposed patch implementing that, omitting
www-browser because it's not (yet) documented by Policy and adding
x-terminal-emulator.
Objections or seconds?
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
Hi!
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 17:03:21 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
t a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 0b3c1a1..597100e 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2190,10 +2190,9 @@ endif
headingVariable substitutions: filedebian/substvars/file/heading
p
- When
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
Hi!
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 18:16:21 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes:
Actually, with the release of GNU/kFreeBSD variants for Squeeze, this
paragraph is not totally accurate.
That's a very good point.
Yeah, I was about to comment on just that but then I
.
regards,
guillem
From 4d13fa337774fc540b87e4e607bdb04e7ee94a83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:11:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Refer generically to Debian instead of the GNU/Linux instance
---
debian-menu-policy.desc |2 +-
debian-mime
, and
the footnote might need to be clarified probably.
regards,
guillem
From 199ea60ca6e9a879f043fba7a588e71ad241468d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:00:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add FHS exception for GNU/Hurd top-level directories
---
policy.sgml
Hi!
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:25:35 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
In #509702, Philipp Kern says that a particular package's list of
architectures should be specified in the source stanza of the control
file, not in the binary packages' descriptions, to avoid any attempt
to build the package on
Hi!
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 19:51:17 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 07:45:16PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
On 11/25/2010 07:18 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:25:35 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
In #509702, Philipp Kern says that a particular package's list
reassign 587377 debian-policy
retitle 587377 debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit
severity 587377 wishlist
thanks
[ Resending to the list, forgot the first time, setting Reply-To to the
bug report. ]
Hi!
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 21:03:28 -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
Package:
Hi!
On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 17:27:39 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 09:00:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
So the reason for imposing a length restriction on version numbers in
particular is due to the UI display of aptitude? I'm a bit dubious that
this is a good
Hi!
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 17:00:17 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:46:15PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
Well, this has already been solved long time ago, although the
restrictions were different then, the dselect methods have supported
the MSDOS-Filename field
Hi!
On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 10:32:17 +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 9b4a93e..cbc8049 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2975,10 +2975,14 @@ Package: libc6
p
In the source package control file file.dsc/file, this
-
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.2.0
Severity: normal
User: debian-pol...@packages.debian.org
Usertag: issue
Hi!
The current specification for the Description field in §5.6.13 seems
to be ambiguous regarding what can or cannot follow the initial
characters.
It specifies that a line can start
On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:10:59 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Sat, May 21, 2011 at 08:47:22AM +0200, Guillem Jover a écrit :
The current specification for the Description field in §5.6.13 seems
to be ambiguous regarding what can or cannot follow the initial
characters.
It specifies
On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 10:53:13 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
dpkg errors out on empty lines inside a field value, but not blank
lines (those consisting only of spaces/tabs).
Sorry, this was not clear. dpkg errors out when it expects only one
stanza, otherwise an empty line (not a blank one
Hi!
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 03:59:43 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Did you read the rest of the message?
But okay, I am willing to accept that this is an approach we do
not want to use. Which still leaves us with a number of options.
To help some existing packages today (and break others):
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 12:29:20 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
* Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org, 2011-06-06, 09:55:
I'd even go further and combine that with dpkg-buildpackage
stopping to set compilation flags on the environment, so we only
have to deal once with possible mass FTBFS on the archive
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 13:37:22 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:55:25AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
To help no existing packages today but make it easy for packages
to opt in (and not break the others):
1. Introduce a Build-Options facility for packages
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 10:07:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Following the further discussion of sorting issues and Jonathan's point
about ambiguity about using +nmu in the upstream_version of a native
package, I updated this some more (mostly by adding back in the language
that Charles had
Hi!
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 17:45:32 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Severity: minor
I would like to request a clarification on whether spaces are allowed
in fields. My first thought was that it is not allowed. However
units-filter/3.5-2 has a a space in the fields of its
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 19:29:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes:
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes:
I propose that all copyright files must use UTF-8 encoding. Lintian has
been emitting a warning for copyright files using obsolete national
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 18:01:52 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
As proposed in 2010 (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#98), I would like to ask
the
Technical Comittee to reconsider our Policy, and restrict it to cases where
the
name of a program is an interface (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#128).
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 23:10:50 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
So since no one had anything to add, here is a concrete proposal. All
of this reflects current practice, I believe. Since the addition of
status_of_proc to /lib/lsb/init-functions, this has been quite
standardized in practice, and
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 23:29:48 +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
* Raphael Hertzog [2012-07-13 09:00 +0200]:
Guillem introduced the --control-list and --control-show interfaces …
If … , we should IMO create a new package that will hook into dpkg
--post-invoke and …
… should create dpkg
reassign 273093 debian-policy
retitle 273093 policy: Document interactions of multiple clashing package
diversions
severity 273093 wishlist
thanks
Hi!
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 22:25:58 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.23
Severity: normal
Feel free to reassign this to
Hi!
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 18:35:33 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
package: developers-reference
severity: normal
version: 3.4.8
tag: patch
I've prepared an initial draft of a developers reference patch that
would document a package salvaging process. Please see below.
Bart has already
On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 10:03:29 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
In prerm:
if [ $1 = remove ] || [ $1 = deconfigure ] ; then
update-alternatives --remove tf /usr/bin/tf5
fi
is correct I think. The possible invocations of prerm are:
prerm remove
old-prerm upgrade new-version
On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 09:59:37 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
This patch creates a new subsection for obsoleted fields. Alternatively
we can concentrate the information where it is, in 5.6.25. Deleting it
would cause some other sub-subsections to be renumbered, so I think that
it is better to
Hi!
On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 07:32:54 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit :
I don't think the description for the Package-List field should document
the valid package types. There's already a Package-Type field for that
(defaults to
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 21:05:21 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:58:31AM +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit :
It will only list binary packages, not all the information for the
source package is currently available from other fields in the .dsc
file, but it could be exported
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:29:13 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
here is a new version trying to addres Simon's and Guillem's comments.
@@ -2671,6 +2671,7 @@ Package: libc6
itemqref id=f-DescriptionttDescription/tt/qref
(mandatory)/item
itemqref
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.4.0
Severity: minor
Hi!
Prompted by 700532 I noticed a reference to the old katie name. Here's
a patch updating it to dak.
Thanks,
Guillem
From d8badfe86c67797701bb7d8281e7cb6206344e8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org
Date: Thu
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.4.0
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hi!
Here's a patch removing a mention of dselect access methods
documentation that's not present in the manual anymore.
Thanks,
Guillem
From 8c23c71cd1f7f68e06e37af5491cab5dba4ec970 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover
Hi!
Here's two patches to start cleaning up the appendix sections. I can
file independent bug reports for each change instead if you want.
Thanks,
Guillem
From c7572d7660140a3f61c922cde11be823dfa58a32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:26:06
Hi!
Here's a patch switching the dpkg-buildpackage appendix section into a
stub, as it's only documenting (some oudated) stuff that's already
present in the man page.
Thanks,
Guillem
From c8475a14c99b3d88f8f9bd8b18d3fd68892f237c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org
Hi!
Here's a patch delegating the deb(5) format described in the appendix
to the man page, as the section is not very complete anyway.
Thanks,
Guillem
From dca71a36ea82b8679d552bfd6179d6a925029ef0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:29:05
Sorry, missed fixing up the subject.
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 19:34:02 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
Here's a patch delegating the deb(5) format described in the appendix
to the man page, as the section is not very complete anyway.
Thanks,
Guillem
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On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 12:53:51 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Thanks Guillem for your patches. After the quick exchange with Russ this week
on this list,
Yeah, being able work on the appendices piecemeal will make it easier,
otherwise it gets difficult to see what's done and what's pending, as
Hi!
On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 18:45:30 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 04:41:55PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
I am having a look at how to document triggers. In order to simplify the
explanation and re-use more easily material from the file above, I think
that we
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 13:31:32 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 03:48:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit :
- Is there anybody following the preparation of the FHS 3.0 or the LSB, who
could tell us if a broader guideline on name encoding for files distributed
in core
Hi!
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 11:54:01 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
This could be done by an addition like the following, after section 10.9
(Permissions and owners). The wording is still a bit clumsy also, I am not
sure if installed includes files created by maintainer scripts (which would
be
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 10:34:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Torsten Jerzembeck t...@nightingale.ms.sub.org writes:
The example provided in Appendix G of the DPM regarding the removal of
diversions doesn't work if the file diverted is a conffile. This is
due to the fact that conffiles are not
On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 20:58:04 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Severity: minor
would you mind if I make the follwing replacements as non-normative changes in
the Policy ?
- configuration files only state - Config-Files state
- not installed state -
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 20:27:50 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Severity: minor
Policy §5.1 states that:
[...] The field name is composed of US-ASCII characters excluding
control characters, space, and colon (i.e., characters in the ranges
33-57 and 59-126, inclusive).
Hi!
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 15:18:04 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
In policy section 10.7.3 Behavior, there is this sentence:
Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be
removed by the package during upgrade.
I would like to suggest that may be replaced with should.
Hi!
[ Just saw while drafting this, that you filed the bug on policy, so
sending a copy there too, let's continue the discussion there then. ]
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 09:51:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Andreas Beckmann a...@debian.org writes:
On 2013-05-15 09:58, Ondřej Surý wrote:
The '2'
Hi!
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:48:02 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.4.0
I have been working on a new tool for integration between the Debian
archive and git. The best available description is probably its
manpage:
Hi!
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 18:17:29 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
In any case, we need one more Developer to support this patch before applying
to
the Policy. Once we have this extra assessment for consensus, I will apply it
unless there are clear objections. Guillem, please raise your hand
Hi!
On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 11:32:14 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes:
I concur completely, and I'm considering rejecting such fields from
dpkg 1.17.x, for the reason above.
I've got a local commit now rejecting these, targetted for 1.17.2.
how about
Hi!
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 15:47:56 +0100, Ximin Luo wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal
I was recently told to split part of my Build-Depends field into a
separate Build-Depends-Indep field. Not one to follow orders without
question, I went and did some research, and found this
On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 22:37:59 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 05:58:19PM +, Ian Jackson a écrit :
I think that the current policy maintenance approach is too
bureaucratic and relies too little on the technical judgement of the
policy editors. I would like to see
Hi!
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 15:35:02 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
I raise similar concerns in #680686. There is also discussion there of
making dpkg-buildpackage produce a smart display for interactive builds
(fleeting display of verbose messages with warnings separated out and
highlighted) while
Hi!
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 16:51:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I use:
gpg --export --armor --export-options export-minimal key \
debian/upstream/signing-key.asc
to generate this file for my packages.
I've been using pgp-clean (signing-party), which seems to generate
even
Hi!
On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 22:04:48 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
* Johannes Schauer j.scha...@email.de [140522 13:30]:
Debian policy 11.1.1 [1] and the associated footnote [2] allow
architecture wildcards of the form os-any and any-cpu. Apt seems to
equal cpu with debian architecture
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.12
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
For a long time dpkg-buildpackage does not need an explicit
«-rfakeroot» argument if fakeroot is installed, it will try to use it
automatically. So it would be nice to update the fakeroot section to
that effect.
Thanks,
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.12
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Since dpkg 1.17.2, there's a new --verify option that can be used to
verify the integrity of packages, for now only the md5sums are being
checked, but more checks will be added in the future. Also since dpkg
1.16.3 md5sum files
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.12
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
The NMU section could mention the nmudiff tool.
Thanks,
Guillem
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Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.12
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
There are several very useful lint-style tools that would be nice to
mention so that people are aware of them. Here's a non-exhaustive list
that would be nice to add:
duck
adequate
piuparts
i18nspector
Thanks,
Guillem
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.12
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
The Packages section states the the .dsc contains checksums but only
lists md5sums, it would be nice to say that shasums are also included.
Thanks,
Guillem
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Hi!
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 18:34:51 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 12:26:07PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
There are several very useful lint-style tools that would be nice to
mention so that people are aware of them. Here's a non-exhaustive list
that would be nice to add
Hi!
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 09:59:10 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
I could have sworn we already had a bug open about this, but I couldn't
find it. If someone else does find it, please merge.
I'm not sure if you were thinking about #562863? Although
Hi!
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 09:22:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org writes:
That's related to being (pseudo-)essential and not to priority. Package
of Priority: required do not have to be pseudo-essential, but packages
of lower priority can be pseudo-essential:
Hi!
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 21:57:57 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
dpkg 1.17.11 and apt 1.0.7 recently implemented support for versioned
provides. From the dpkg changelog:
* Add versioned Provides support:
- Add a new dpkg --assert-versioned-provides command.
- Packages can provide a
[ Only found time to finish up the reply I started weeks ago now, so I
might lost my train of thought from then. :/ ]
Hi!
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 18:02:29 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes:
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 09:22:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2
Hi,
Definitions
===
I'll define «physical line» as the stream of bytes ending with an EOL
character (usually '\n', but it could be DOS style as well). «multi line»
as one or more physical lines with the following ones starting with at
least a space.
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
As of dpkg version 1.13.16, dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default,
thus including the Section and Priority fields in the generated binary
debian control files.
Attached a patch.
regards,
guillem
diff -Naur
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 17:04:17 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I have proposed a modification for Policy that will permit wrapping in the
following fields in debian/control:
Depends Recommends Suggests Enhances Pre-Depends Conflicts
Provides Replaces Build-Depends Build-Depends-Indep
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 23:10:36 +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal
[Side note: Buildds/dpkg-buildpackage has no robust way of telling if
the optional build-arch field exists and must call build. This is
wastefull for both build dependencies and build time.]
[ Found this today on the web archives. ]
Hi,
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:11:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote:
The documentation for this probably belongs in debian-policy; current
versions of policy seem to mention Source-Version, though, not the new
substvars, and I'm not sure if anyone has
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:01:08 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:11:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote:
The documentation for this probably belongs in debian-policy; current
versions of policy seem to mention
Hi Russ,
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 18:50:26 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Could you please review the following patch to Debian Policy to document
the use of ~ in version numbers and confirm that this matches dpkg's
behavior? I'd like to get this into Policy since it's already in
widespread use in
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 18:08:52 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Bug #209008 proposed to have a common interface to tell packages to do
parallel building (make -j).
For some reason, the discussion that happened back in 2003 isn't logged
on the BTS, but can be read in [2]. Everyone seemed to agree
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Severity: wishlist
I'd like to propose to formalize a new option («nocheck») in
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to make the build skip running any test-suites.
This helps for example when doing iterations of patching, building
and testing, until you want to do the final
Hi,
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 04:09:51 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:02:52 -0600 (CST), Adam Heath said:
This is not supported by any tool in debian.
Control files are ascii, 7-bit, period. And, when generating the
.changes for an upload, the changelog is included,
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 00:49:13 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Section 5.6.1 of the DPM states:
In a main source control information, a .changes or a .dsc file this may
contain only the name of the source package.
In the control file of a
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:59:11 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
Package: debian-policy
The description of Pre-Depends in section 7.2 says that half-configured
packages can satisfy pre-dependencies. However, chapter 6 does not mention
that package state. Instead, it talks about Failed-Config
Hi,
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 19:59:20 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...] Is there a specification
somewhere for the Vcs-* fields for arch repositories? I remember a
discussion, but I don't remember the conclusions. If someone could point
me at the specification or even just send me the correct
Hi,
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 13:46:58 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
As I report in #379140 (against dpkg), I have implemented Breaks in
dpkg. The attached patch is the
Hi,
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 19:23:58 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Okay, here's a revised proposal to address both Bug#209008 (parallel) and
Bug#430649 (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS parsing). This proposal does the following:
--- orig/policy.sgml
+++ mod/policy.sgml
+ sect id=debianrules-options
+
Hi,
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 12:37:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I try that, I get:
dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Homepage' in input data in
package's section of control info file
...
dpkg-genchanges: warning: unknown
Hi,
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 12:29:35 +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:37:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:28:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I propose that policy should standardise that we move to using
Hi,
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 19:04:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Here is a proposed patch that also clarifies the comparison of version
numbers a bit. Seconds?
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 1c9a339..b7ac92e 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2877,19 +2877,22 @@
Hi,
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 01:47:39 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I think being LSB compliant is good for Debian.
The LSB init script specification *is a specification for the init scripts
of LSB packages*. It has NOTHING to do with LSB compliance of LSB
implementations. Debian is an LSB
Hi,
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 17:09:48 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Bug#163666 against debian-policy points out that arch-specific build
dependencies are unclearly specified in Policy currently in the presence
of alternatives. The current wording says:
All fields that specify build-time
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 14:01:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to propose to formalize a new option («nocheck») in
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to make the build skip running any test-suites.
This helps for example when doing iterations of patching
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 13:31:20 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I observe that
a) POSIX specifies the behavior of 'export' and 'readonly'
b) Implementation of 'local' is often very similar to 'export' and
'readonly'
and in the absence of a
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