Bug#661816: debian-policy: Do not call update-mime directly, since it is triggered by Dpkg.

2012-08-15 Thread Russ Allbery
tic: I put a whole "should not" under emphasis, not only the "not" > Here is how the section 9.7 would read with this patch applied. Looks good to me. Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Cleanup of bugs related to /usr/share/common-licenses.

2012-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
7 if #562920 is better to stay closed ? I think we should close all of them. I don't think anything has changed. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Bug#571776: document symbols

2012-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
ces keep not engaging for Policy. I need to pay more attention to that. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Bug#571776: document symbols

2012-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau writes: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 14:25:12 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Okay, once more for the win. Here is the current version of the patch, >> incorporating substantial improvements from Jonathan Nieder and >> hopefully incorporating all the feedback in

Bug#685992: debian-policy: Document in the policy the way to properly set selinux labels on files and directories

2012-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
any label information, so presumably there's some database somewhere that has that information. Is any action necessary to set up that database in the first place? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-p

Bug#671355: debian-policy: [debconf_spec] Document escape capability.

2012-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
t; + > + > > multiselect > Minor nit: I think there's formal DocBook markup for a cross-reference to a manual page. If I'm remembering correctly, we should use that markup here. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <ht

Bug#374029: Build-Depends{,-Indep} as defined is not useful and not followed

2012-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > The following patch implements the decision of the Debian Technical > Committee in #629385 to make build-arch and build-indep mandatory. > Please review. Note that I'm not looking for conventional seconds since > the Technical Committee has already

Debian Policy 3.9.4.0 planned for 2012-09-04

2012-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
263 Clarify 9.9 - Environment variables #648271 11.8.3 says xterm passes -e option straight to exec #671355 [debconf] document escape capability -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Debian Policy 3.9.4.0 planned for 2012-09-04

2012-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
tart jobs in packages, which I > think meets your criteria. Sure, sounds good to me. I was dithering about putting that on my list already. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.

Bug#591791: [PATCH] Document generic and upstart-specific init-system requirements

2012-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
cy, and we can deal with any further refinements as additional work. I don't think there's anything about this that would force unreasonable behavior. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-re

Bug#652011: Please revert original bug title

2012-08-28 Thread Russ Allbery
n you intended, and I don't think it's still doing anyone any good. We didn't arrive at any conclusion about dropping the separation and no one is pursuing this right now, so I don't think there's much point in keeping the wishlist bug against Policy open anyway. We can a

Bug#686143: debian-policy: FHS requirements on "essential" binaries cannot be well defined at distro level

2012-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Zachary Harris writes: > Under #652011, presumably with reference to my proposed addition to > policy here, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Policy already says what you want it to say currently, > Where? If policy is already clear on this, then this bug should be > closed rath

Bug#686143: debian-policy: FHS requirements on "essential" binaries cannot be well defined at distro level

2012-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
erity are reserved for places where what Policy says is contradictory, deceptive, or simply wrong. That's not the case here; the clarification that you're proposing is effectively a weakening of something that Policy (sort of implicitly) tells one to do right now. Anyway, order of processing of bug

Bug#374029: Build-Depends{,-Indep} as defined is not useful and not followed

2012-09-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 08:31:50AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Russ Allbery writes: >>> The following patch implements the decision of the Debian Technical >>> Committee in #629385 to make build-arch and build-indep mandatory. >>&g

Bug#374029: Build-Depends{,-Indep} as defined is not useful and not followed

2012-09-01 Thread Russ Allbery
pull out the footnote saying that it doesn't work properly), but I'd rather not. I think it's already working. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#591791: [PATCH] Document generic and upstart-specific init-system requirements

2012-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
s is something I want to tackle for the general DocBook rewrite, at which point we'll also regroup all the init system stuff. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#661816: debian-policy: Do not call update-mime directly, since it is triggered by Dpkg.

2012-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
1;bug=661816 With Guillem's review, this now has enough seconds. I've applied it for the next release with the wording tweaks Guillem suggested. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-req

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ation itself. That works for me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Bug#687844: debian-policy: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed:

2012-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
n agent > already exists for the given subject I think you meant PolicyKit rather than debian-policy. I'm a bit dubious the problem is there, but reassigning there to start with. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCR

Policy 3.9.4.0 upload target of 2012-09-18

2012-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
9.11 New section documenting general requirements for alternate init systems and specific requirements for integrating with upstart. 12.5 All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8. Note that the change to make build-arch and build-indep mandatory is not RC for

Bug#687900: document multiarch

2012-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal There are various bugs already filed about some edge cases and specific issues with multiarch, but none to track the general documentation of multiarch handling in Policy. This bug will be used to discuss the overall wording. It's possible some of the exis

Bug#687900: document multiarch

2012-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
d file conflicts or lack thereof for the various types of multiarch packages, and everything else from the multiarch wiki documentation that needs to be folded into Policy. I'd rather not do this piecemeal, since we need to review the whole multiarch specification across Policy to be sure tha

Bug#688220: debian-policy: Typo in path to shlibs files in /var/lib/dpkg/info (8.6.4.1)

2012-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
fo/*.symbols, > but packages should not rely on this and instead should use dpkg-query > --control-path package shlibs if for some reason these files need to > be examined. > Should that be /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs? Indeed, thanks. I will fix that for the next release. -- Russ

Bug#688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2012-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Based on discussion in debian-devel, the current Built-Using description would imply that it had to be present for, say, the code from libgcc incorporated into every binary build. The description should be modified to be clear that it is only mandatory if t

Bug#71621: Policy on update-alternatives still needed

2012-09-23 Thread Russ Allbery
er about to do an upgrade (and hence will call postinst again and would just recreate the alternative) or we're about to call abort-upgrade in postinst. As near as I can tell, postinst should just unconditionally call update-alternatives; it's at worse a no-op. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.o

Bug#71621: Policy on update-alternatives still needed

2012-09-23 Thread Russ Allbery
er than through maintainer scripts, in which case there are further options open, such as dpkg remembering the manual alternative configuration and restoring it once the deconfigured package has been reconfigured. (I suspect this is oversimplified.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#679326: debian-policy: DMUA should covered more explicitly

2012-10-01 Thread Russ Allbery
new GR, but I think it's a good idea and I think that limitation is solely due to a bug in the original GR, so I don't see much point in arguing about it.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-

Bug#679326: debian-policy: DMUA should covered more explicitly

2012-10-01 Thread Russ Allbery
d paid attention. > Or is (my|our) reading here that wrong? I was definitely reading it wrong. That certainly resolves all of my (unimportant) concern. Sorry about the noise! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: [IANA #616232] Registration of text/vnd.debian.copyright: a media type for machine-readable copyright files.

2012-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
t;secure transport," since if Debian ever needed to guarantee integrity of the file, that's probably the mechanism that we'd use. Thank you for doing this work! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers

2012-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
"license statements," which is what is actually being displayed). I'd prefer to work on that language if necessary rather than adding a new statement, possibly by strengthening the degree to which Policy says to not prompt unnecessarily. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers

2012-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > To me, this feels like a specific instance of the general problem of > excessive maintainer script prompting. Oh, I see why you didn't class it that way: this isn't something done by the maintainer scripts, but rather something done by the package itse

FYI: Requested update of the dbnpolicy group

2012-11-03 Thread Russ Allbery
The dbnpolicy group, which is used to control access to the Git repository used to maintain debian-policy, was missing both aba and plessy. I've just submitted an RT ticket to DSA requesting that it be updated. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.or

Bug#691352: Typo in 8.6.4 (The shlibs system)

2012-11-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Raúl Benencia writes: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.9.4.0 > Severity: minor > At the beginning, when the policy says "The shlibs system is an simpler > alternative". s/an/a Thanks, fixed for the next release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: What is the use case for Policy §7.6.2 ?

2012-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
ng upgrades, except > for virtual packages? That makes sense to me on first glance. I can't think of a case where I'd want to use Provides/Conflicts/Replaces with non-virtual packages rather than using a transitional package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <h

Bug#694384: Clarify what first paragraph is in presence of blank lines

2012-11-25 Thread Russ Allbery
re immediate concern, which would argue for changing gnome-pkg-tools to not do this in the short run, but moving towards (1). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#694883: debian-policy: copyright format: please clarify the recommended form for public domain files

2012-12-01 Thread Russ Allbery
n debian-policy, the specific problem is what to put in the Copyright field. (The rest is covered by the existing "Public Domain" section.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.

Re: FYI: Requested update of the dbnpolicy group

2012-12-01 Thread Russ Allbery
have any objections, but the changes have been infrequent enough that it didn't seem worthwhile to try to figure out how to make that change. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.deb

Bug#696185: [copyright-format] Please clarify what to use in License field for licenses not specifically mentioned

2012-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
pecification that the > package's copyright file references, e.g. 1.0 for the present), then the > packager is free to pick any short name desired. IMHO if there is > indeed an SPDX identifier, it might be preferable to use that, but it is > not mandatory in any way. Right, this

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

2012-12-25 Thread Russ Allbery
e it clear to automated parsers that they're following the base license template. That gains some of the benefit of your proposal in terms of making the file clearer and allowing use of the standard license short names, without losing the verbatim text of the license. -- Russ Allbery (r...@de

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

2012-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
ith the base license. Separating out the language so that it's presented in separate paragraphs, which I think is the key point of having this feature, runs the risk of not correctly reproducing the *actual* license text in the copyright file. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

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

2013-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Ximin Luo writes: > On 25/12/12 18:28, Russ Allbery wrote: >> You should consider the possibility that no one is trying to delay >> anything, but rather that we simply aren't convinced by the changes >> that you're proposing. > Well, more criticism would be ap

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

2013-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> It might be worthwhile to recognize some sort of syntax similar to >> license exceptions so that one can tag the license as "BSD-3-Clause by >> " or the like. That would let one use standalone >> license para

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

2013-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder writes: >>> Russ Allbery wrote: >>>> It might be worthwhile to recognize some sort of syntax similar to >>>> license exceptions so that one can tag the license as "BSD-3-Clause by &g

Bug#697134: [copyright-format] Introduce a syntax for BSD-3-Clause variants

2013-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
nses that I regularly see out there in the open source world. It may be hard to extend a system to other license families, but just solving that one problem would have a huge impact on the percentage of Debian packages, say, that could be accurately classified automatically for the purposes of li

Bug#697237: [copyright-format] Specify that the file starts with the Format field.

2013-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > I wonder if it would be useful to mandate in the next revision that the > files must start with the Format field. Yes, definitely. Good idea. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Bug#592610: 7.3/7.4/7.6: Usage of Breaks and Conflicts unclear and contradictive

2013-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
ould be to describe the intent of Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces in isolation in their current sections, but then move all of the text about how they work in concert to a new section that lays out the specific use cases discussed and provides guidance for how to implement each one. --

Bug#697237: [copyright-format] Specify that the file starts with the Format field.

2013-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
) The advantage of putting format first is that in some obscure situations, it could help with backward compatibility with changes that otherwise wouldn't be backward-compatible (like allowing a field to be duplicated that couldn't be duplicated before, that sort of thing

Bug#697433: New field Package-List in .dsc

2013-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
nary package (udeb). > + > + > > > > Does anybody know if this field mandatory or optional ? Seconded, once that question has been resolved. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
e to mark it > recommended. Sounds right to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > here is a new version trying to addres Simon's and Guillem's comments. Seconded. In response to the other follow-up, I don't think this is the right place (or bug) to discuss udeb package behavior or what portions of Policy they comply with. -

Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> In response to the other follow-up, I don't think this is the right >> place (or bug) to discuss udeb package behavior or what portions of >> Policy they comply with. > Surely it is relevant to people reading policy t

Bug#698030: debian-policy: document micro binary packages (udebs).

2013-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
on with an additional mention of udebs without having that statement. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Bug#698030: debian-policy: document micro binary packages (udebs).

2013-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
by the Debian Installer) are not fully covered in this manual and do not comply with all of the requirements discussed here. See the http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/ch03.html";> for more information about them. ? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#700107: debian-policy: Polkit prevents access to wireless

2013-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
ty policies. I'm not at all sure what package this sort of bug belongs to, so I'm reassigning it to network-manager-gnome, which should at least get it into the general ballpark. The network-manager maintainers should have a better idea of where specifically it should go. -- Russ Allbery

Re: Work on the appendices, or defer to Policy 4.0 ?

2013-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
ons to applying patches there. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Bug#671355: [debconf_spec] Document escape capability.

2013-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
e backslashes and newlines in its replies. >> See debconf-escape >> 1. > Nice wording; I second it. > Are there other comments, opinions, or seconds ? Looks good to me. Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~ea

Re: Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
59-1 or KOI8-R or SJIS documents out there and people who work with those documents may prefer to continue to operate in that locale. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.o

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
le). There may be reasons why files should be encoded in legacy encodings for specific uses, and I don't feel like it's the proper role of Policy to dictate to all package maintainers that they can't work with those use cases. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <ht

Bug#698030: debian-policy: document micro binary packages (udebs).

2013-03-09 Thread Russ Allbery
ml";> for more > + information about them. > + > > > Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
I wonder if we should explicitly recommend against diverting conffiles, or if some of those problems have been cleaned up. Some Debian sites, such as (IIRC) MIT, have extensive local infrastructure based on diverted conffiles and have run into all sorts of weird edge cases with them. -- Russ A

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
pure ASCII stance feels like a very English-centric stance. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 03:13:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Many were posted to this thread. I guess I just disagree with you on >> whether those uses are "good." For me, allowing the correct spellings >> of words and the correct na

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
already contains a similar warning about files vitally important > for the systemm, and I think that it would be confusing to separate the > two warnings. This sounds okay for the time being, although it sounds like we may be able to drop some of those warnings before too long. -- Russ

Bug#669915: debian-policy: §12.2 recommends possibly unneeded dependency (for Wheezy)

2013-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
d others) think ? Looks good to me. Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Bug#669915: debian-policy: §12.2 recommends possibly unneeded dependency (for Wheezy)

2013-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
t; install-info should not invoke > install-info directly and should not > depend on, recommend, or suggest install-info > for this purpose. > > > Info readers requiring the /usr/share/info/dir file should > depend on instal

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
to that effect in Policy. We have files in the archive already using non-ASCII encodings, and asking them to convert to ASCII feels like a real step back. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@list

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-04-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong writes: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think we should require UTF-8 as the character encoding for file >> names and fix the non-UTF-8 file names in the archive currently. >> None of the other courses of action really make any sense to me. >

Bug#704657: debian/rules: Inconsistent required targets

2013-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
are still calling 'build' not 'build-arch', don't > they ? No, I believe dpkg has been changed to probe whether the build-arch target exists and call it by preference if it does, and I think that change is already live on the buildds. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-04-07 Thread Russ Allbery
hen they can be represented in that character > set. > > This looks good to me. I think that strikes the right balance without going into too many details about what justification should or shouldn't be required for using UTF-8. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian

Bug#582109: debian-policy: document triggers where appropriate

2013-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
states) I thought Guillem requested we use the capitalized versions. I think the capitalized versions stand out more and make it clearer that the expected meaning isn't necessarily the plain English meaning of the phrase. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyri

Bug#705403: Correcting non-standard dpkg states in the Policy.

2013-04-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Installed" state > - "Failed Config" state -> "Half-Configured" state > - config-failed -> "Half-Configured" Please go ahead -- I'm all in favor. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#706778: debian-policy: Please explicitly forbid "-" at the start of Deb822 field names

2013-05-05 Thread Russ Allbery
rom > dpkg 1.17.x, for the reason above. I also agree and am happy to second a patch. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

2013-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
th adding a recommendation to include a desktop file, since that's what most of the desktop environments actually use. That way, we don't lose functionality. Would you be willing to take a first stab at writing something like that? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

2013-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
), tcsh, telnet, texlive-base (TeXconfig), units, w3m, and zsh. I suspect that most, if not all, of those programs do not have desktop files currently. Do you want them to? A straightforward reading of this modification to Policy, were I the bc and dc maintainer, would indicate that

Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

2013-05-12 Thread Russ Allbery
keep the current background information (the definition of MIME and the discussion of what it's used for), though, and at least for right now we should probably also keep the mailcap instructions, since I'm fairly sure they're still used by very widely used programs like

Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

2013-05-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le dimanche 12 mai 2013 à 08:03 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> I'm not sure that "mostly called from the terminal" is quite the right >> way of phrasing the point, but I'm not sure what the right way of >> handling it is.

Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

2013-05-13 Thread Russ Allbery
nfo”, the package can ship a > MIME file in XML format as described in the Shared MIME-info > specification: > http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/latest/ I'll leave it to Charles to make the call on whether to keep the old language about m

Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

2013-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
e are desireable, though, and would strongly encourage the various parties involved in menu implementations to get together and find consensus on these sorts of issues. The result of that consensus would be appropriate for inclusion in Policy (probably as a desktop file sub-policy). -- Rus

Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

2013-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
one the work. I think enough years have gone by that it doesn't make sense to keep waiting for someone to volunteer to do this work for the less common window managers like fvwm. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

2013-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
uot;. If we later on decide to add > additional categories that the upstream fdo spec doesn't list, we can > always add our own categories to (a sub-)policy. Here's what's currently available -- what do you think? http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ See i

Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

2013-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
7.2: The mailcap entries, for when something can not be expressed in a > Desktop entry. This all sounds good to me. > For media types, there is at least one more provider: the 'file' > package. I wonder if there is something to mention there, or if it is > more relevant

Bug#708566: library -dev naming policy encourages unnecessary transitions

2013-05-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Policy 8.4 currently says: If there are development files associated with a shared library, the source package needs to generate a binary development package named librarynamesoversion-dev, or if you prefer only to support one development ve

Re: Typo in Python Policy

2013-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
best way to get this to the right place would be "reportbug python". -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Bug#708566: library -dev naming policy encourages unnecessary transitions

2013-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
ian things lately. I'd love to see someone take this on. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Typo in Python Policy

2013-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
ndard Filename: pool/main/p/python-defaults/python_2.7.3-13_i386.deb Size: 178948 MD5sum: 97a9169dd6121123ce0be535562b59d6 SHA1: 23afe0d6105ff58b1f52272ed1f5410d81857ccd SHA256: 5a1190cdccb0c4aad3657deb2653fcea92938a4f40c8384dc201818bd85540f2 -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.e

Re: Typo in Python Policy

2013-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
ing on there, but you could try reporting the bug against python-defaults directly instead. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehd0ylt9@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: Bug#709382: mksh: broken Built-Using handling

2013-05-22 Thread Russ Allbery
The general consensus on debian-devel (at least as I understood it) was to only use Built-Using when there's some licensing reason why we need to keep the referenced package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Bug#709382: mksh: broken Built-Using handling

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser writes: > Russ Allbery dixit: >> In the meantime, please don't add Built-Using for libgcc. The libgcc >> license does not require it, due to the runtime exception, and >> essentially > The dietlibc licence does require for libgcc to be added t

Re: Bug#709382: mksh: broken Built-Using handling

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser writes: > Russ Allbery dixit: >> If not, I'm confused. I don't see any reason why dietlibc's license >> would change something about libgcc's license. > dietlibc is GPL, so a derivate is also GPL. > The mksh-static and lksh binaries, w

Re: Bug#709382: mksh: broken Built-Using handling

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
your choice, consistent with the licensing of the Independent Modules. The runtime-lib-exception lets you relicense the portion of included libgcc code under any terms you want provided that you use an Eligible Compilation Process (which basically means building with GCC). -- Russ

Re: Bug#709382: mksh: broken Built-Using handling

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
the binary requiring that the libgcc source be available. We probably need to have a broader discussion about this, but I think I'm going to start with leader and see if Lucas has an opinion about where to start with making decisions here. One option available to leader is to ask for an opinion fr

Built-Using, libgcc, and libc_nonshared

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
bian Policy so that people know when to use Built-Using and when not to. Do you have an opinion on how we should make these decisions as a project? Is this a place where possibly we should seek the opinion of legal counsel? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/

Re: Bug#709382: mksh: broken Built-Using handling

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
il the binaries built from that source were replaced. At the time, though, the assumption was that Built-Using would be a fairly rare thing that would only be used for those few score packages that were Build-Depending on *-source packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Built-Using, libgcc, and libc_nonshared

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> mksh-static of course links statically and therefore pulls in >> substantial portions of library source, but there are parts of libgcc >> and possibly libc that are always incorporated into binaries, even ones >>

Re: Built-Using, libgcc, and libc_nonshared

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
f interfaces specified for a particular programming language, one that is widely used among developers working in that language. which means that libgcc is a System Library, and therefore is not part of the Corresponding Source. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <htt

Re: Bug#709382: Built-Using, libgcc, and libc_nonshared

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
e deleted when an architecture moves off the main archive (to > d-ports, or because it’s no longer even in oldstable) normally. Hm, that's an interesting point, indeed. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: On upstart implementing Debian Policy §9.11.1 on behalf of sysv init scripts

2013-06-20 Thread Russ Allbery
;; > stop) > exit 0 > ;; > esac > fi > fi Libraries, even shell libraries, should generally not call exit. It's very surprising behavior. The overall program flow should remain under the control of the main program. --

Bug#715804: Debian policy for web apps still references /doc as accessible

2013-07-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ot of web servers in Debian that still do so and that need to be notified of this? If this is a transition that's already complete, I'm not sure it's worth saying anything here. It doesn't strike me as the sort of idea that's so obvious that people are lik

Bug#706778: debian-policy: Please explicitly forbid "-" at the start of Deb822 field names

2013-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
t the change, shall > I list you as seconding this patch ? Looks good to me. Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: How about updating the Policy to version 3.9.5 in October ?

2013-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
;m still dealing with a ton of ongoing effort with my day job, which has sharply limited the amount of time that I have to spend on Debian and my Policy work has suffered (let alone work on Lintian). Unfortunately, it's probably not that likely that it will let up appreciably in the next few mo

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