Bug#1020248: [Git][dbnpolicy/policy][master] 2 commits: Use stanza to refer to deb822 parts instead of paragraph

2022-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Russ and Gregor, thanks for your feedback, I think that I made most of the points I was thinking about and hope that some of them related to Simple English and jargon can be useful in the future. I also understand your point of view. One final comment I would like to make is that the format

Bug#1020248: [Git][dbnpolicy/policy][master] 2 commits: Use stanza to refer to deb822 parts instead of paragraph

2022-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Russ, Le Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 06:08:16PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > I do find the use of paragraph the way we were previously using it to > be confusing, particularly given that the paragraphs contain fields > which in turn contain actual paragraphs in the normal sense of the > term.

Bug#1020248: [Git][dbnpolicy/policy][master] 2 commits: Use stanza to refer to deb822 parts instead of paragraph

2022-09-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, while I do not want to pull the handbrake I would like to add my minority opinion to that change: Le Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 04:11:43PM +, Russ Allbery (@rra) a écrit : > > The «stanza» name is a commonly used and understood term when referring > to deb822 blocks. Although «paragraph»

Bug#1008480: debian-policy: The mime-support package was split into media-types and mailcap

2022-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.6.0.1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: ple...@debian.org Hi Russ and Sean, it is a long time I have not posted here! In the previous release cycle, I have split the mime-support into the media-types and the mailcap packages. The patch below updates the Policy to

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2017-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
se which one would expect to find on > > | any Unix-like system. If the expectation is that an experienced Unix > > | person who found it missing would say "What on earth is going on, where > > | is foo?", it must be an important package. Le Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:0

Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority

2017-07-02 Thread Charles Plessy
the network, plus the bare minimum of commonly-expected and necessary tools to administrate the system. This does not include space-consuming features such as documentationa and multilingual support. (The last sentence above is there because man-db, debian-faq and locales are all priority:standard). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: [policy] 02/02: Clean up upgrading-checklist, bump version number

2017-05-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 06:35:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > > >> - > >> -Version 3.9.8.0 > >> + > >> +Version 3.9.8 > >> > >

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-02 Thread Charles Plessy
may be specified." https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Standards-Version Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: [policy] 02/02: Clean up upgrading-checklist, bump version number

2017-04-30 Thread Charles Plessy
> - > -Version 3.9.8.0 > + > +Version 3.9.8 > > >Released April, 2016. > @@ -318,8 +329,8 @@ > > > > - > -Version 3.9.7.0 > + > +Version 3.9.7 Hello everybody, isn't there a risk to break links with that change ? Have a nice day, [Please CC

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-04-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 05:50:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > This is a huge change, including the conversion to DocBook Many thanks to you, Guillem, Osamu and everybody else how made this happen ! -- Charles

[developers-reference] branch master updated (b3a3512 -> ded4668)

2016-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from b3a3512 Fix missing spaces new ded4668 Corrected a typo. The 1 revisions listed above as "new" are entirely new to this

Taking a one-year break (Re: Next update of the Policy ?)

2015-10-03 Thread Charles Plessy
tober 2016 I will be more resilient, or the community will be nicer, who knows ? Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Next update of the Policy ?

2015-10-02 Thread Charles Plessy
. Can a Policy Editor upload the updated Policy ? If you are short of time, I offer to do it myself. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

2015-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
istred in the desktop menu shall > ---^ Corrected, thanks. >From this and the "colon" patch I conclude that I definitely need to go to bed. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Bug#792853: debian-policy: please disallow colons in upstream_version

2015-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 03:15:33PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > > This patch doesn't have Jakub's suggestion to drop : too. Woops, sorry (new patch attached). -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan >From 8043471268e4256e4a7c08da032b7074777f3eb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00

Bug#792853: debian-policy: please disallow colons in upstream_version

2015-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:40:34PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Le samedi, 26 septembre 2015, 15.03:09 Charles Plessy a écrit : > > Le Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > > > * Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.or

Bug#792853: debian-policy: please disallow colons in upstream_version

2015-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
e seconds, this bug will go to bitrot and the Policy will not change. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

2015-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 09:24:20AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > > For what I'm concerned, at least for the "cherry-picking" part of the TC > decision, please go ahead. Commited and pushed! I attached a consolidated patch that summarises the changes. Cheers,

Bug#792853: debian-policy: please disallow colons in upstream_version

2015-09-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > * Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>, 2015-09-24, 21:53: > >- : ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon, > >+ : ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, > > Remove :, too. Thanks for the proofrea

Bug#792853: debian-policy: please disallow colons in upstream_version

2015-09-24 Thread Charles Plessy
ce day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan >From f7d72a95a06ab83af6dec1b4eaaa41396e77fb88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:49:44 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Policy: [5.6.12] forbid colons in package version numbers. Wording: Char

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

2015-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
it repository on Alioth, so if the Policy Editors are busy, I can implement the TC's decision. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

2015-09-18 Thread Charles Plessy
t; > > Hi Didier, thanks a lot to you and the TC for bringing this issue to a conclusion. I think that your patch is good. Minor nitpick: the Policy does not use the word "shall" much - I guess it is to help non-native speakers like me. If I understand well, it mea

Re: Bug#798476: debian-policy: don't require Uploaders

2015-09-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 09:10:31PM +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : > > for some time I've been uploading packages with Maintainer set to a > mailing list and no Uploaders field. In cases where some package kind > of fit within a team, but noone cares specifically about that individual > package,

Bug#797478: Obsolete file in debian-policy package

2015-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
, as it serves no meaningful purpose nowadays, except possibly historical interest. (And for that, we have archives.) Hi Julian. why not... I am opening a bug so that your proposition does not get forgotten... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: debian/copyright in source package

2015-08-25 Thread Charles Plessy
, because: - the FTP team is free to refuse to review a package that they consider problematic enough. Here, the problem being when copyright information is too hard to find for review. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

[developers-reference] 01/01: Uploads to suites other than unstable/experimental should use codenames.

2015-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit 23da4a448537c6a6ec6a84a364a1173281398d67 Author: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org Date: Tue Aug 25 11:43:09 2015 +0900 Uploads to suites

[developers-reference] branch master updated (87a5880 - 23da4a4)

2015-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from 87a5880 Point Packages-arch-specific URL to cgit mirror. new 23da4a4 Uploads to suites other than unstable/experimental should

Bug#796442: §5.5 Uploads to suites other than unstable/experimental should use codenames, not suites

2015-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
are normally uploaded into unstable. Uploads to unstable or +experimental should use these suite names in the changelog entry; +uploads for other supported suites should use the suite codenames, +as they avoid any ambiguity. Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (2015-08-22

Bug#796442: §5.5 Uploads to suites other than unstable/experimental should use codenames, not suites

2015-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:59:23PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : --- devref.orig.txt 2015-08-21 22:49:46.985614431 +0200 +++ devref.new.txt 2015-08-21 22:58:15.226984105 +0200 @@ -2209,9 +2209,10 @@ from the first line of the debian/changelog file and places it in

Bug#768292: Addition of the MPL to /usr/share/common-licenses (was Re: debian/copyright in source package)

2015-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
. Are we ready to call for seconds on this one ? For #795402 (Creative Commons licenses), I think that the problem reported by Simon, that all CCs below 4.0 are a constellation of regional versions, makes it very hard to include them. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Re: debian/copyright in source package

2015-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
sect Even after that change, the sentence Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright information and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright still appears twice in the Policy. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Bug#768292: Addition of the MPL to /usr/share/common-licenses (was Re: debian/copyright in source package)

2015-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Control: tag -1 patch Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: thanks for reminding us of #768292. I think that it reached broad consensus for the addition of the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses. I attached a patch that modifies the Policy accordingly. Are we ready to call

Bug#794234: developers-reference: quinn-diff is gone

2015-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:06:09PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : I am tempted to also add the following: diff --git a/common.ent b/common.ent index 7991a00..e94970a 100644 --- a/common.ent +++ b/common.ent @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ !ENTITY url-low-threshold-nmu https://wiki.debian.org

[developers-reference] 01/01: Point Packages-arch-specific URL to cgit mirror.

2015-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit 87a58803c0afcbf6a15a3a3176048f9ef685eb8b Author: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org Date: Sat Aug 15 09:20:50 2015 +0900 Point Packages-arch

[developers-reference] branch master updated (af63bc3 - 87a5880)

2015-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from af63bc3 Update section on debview, now in the debian-el package. new 87a5880 Point Packages-arch-specific URL to cgit mirror.

[developers-reference] 01/01: Update section on debview, now in the debian-el package.

2015-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit af63bc3d47e5e2b4063fc56b543c365e209d6d63 Author: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org Date: Thu Aug 13 07:24:38 2015 +0900 Update section

Bug#794235: developers-reference: debian-maintainers is gone

2015-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Control: tag -1 pending Le Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 03:42:39PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : §A.8.4 mentions the debian-maintainers package, but this package was removed from the archive in 2010. Le Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 08:21:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : how about the following

Bug#794236: developers-reference: debview is now part of debian-el

2015-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
, Charles Plessy a écrit : how about just replacing all occurences of debview by debian-el ? This would break URLs referencing to the current section ID (debview), but I believe that they should be very rare. Moreover, it only breaks the anchor, so this would not cause a HTTP error. I just

[developers-reference] branch master updated (d73eeb2 - f506185)

2015-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from d73eeb2 Prepare changelog for upload. new 58c9fd4 Remove section on the obsolete quinn-diff program. new f506185 Remove

[developers-reference] 01/02: Remove section on the obsolete quinn-diff program.

2015-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit 58c9fd4dab9dd71001c92fc32c9aa3c27c351464 Author: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org Date: Wed Aug 12 19:44:50 2015 +0900 Remove section

[developers-reference] 02/02: Remove sect. on debian-maintainers package; update debian-keyring desc.

2015-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit f5061852b97430b3ccb9e8e947660a0183bbcd4a Author: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org Date: Thu Aug 13 07:12:47 2015 +0900 Remove sect

[developers-reference] branch master updated (f506185 - af63bc3)

2015-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from f506185 Remove sect. on debian-maintainers package; update debian-keyring desc. new af63bc3 Update section on debview, now in

Bug#794234: developers-reference: quinn-diff is gone

2015-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 05:27:33PM +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 20:47:08 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I propose to go ahead by removing §A.7.1. Are there objections or counter-proposals ? Sounds good to me. Thanks for the support; I committed the change. I

Bug#794234: developers-reference: quinn-diff is gone

2015-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 08:12:28AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : I think that the mention of quinn-diff can be removed from the Developer's Reference. This can be done in two ways. - Remove §A.7.1 on quinn-diff. Then obviously §A.7.2 on dpkg-cross will become the new §A.7.1

Bug#794234: developers-reference: quinn-diff is gone

2015-08-07 Thread Charles Plessy
? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Bug#794235: developers-reference: debian-maintainers is gone

2015-08-07 Thread Charles Plessy
keys of Debian Maintainers are now distributed in the +systemitem role=packagedebian-keyring/systemitem package. See ulink url=url-wiki-dm;/ulink for more information. /para /section Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Bug#794236: developers-reference: debview is now part of debian-el

2015-08-07 Thread Charles Plessy
-el has little relevance to the section on which it is presented (Documentation and information - The following packages provide information for maintainers or help with building documentation). Maybe it can be moved or removed ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http

Bug#794902: debian-policy: obsolete footnote about liblockfile1 dependency

2015-08-07 Thread Charles Plessy
idea. Anyway, liblockfile 1.01 was released in 1999, so no version constraint is necessary. Let's remove this footnote. Hi Jakub, good point, I agree. I think that this footnote is obsolete and can be removed. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#793999: debian-policy: description of binary* targets suggests that build-{arch,indep} are optional

2015-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles From 2d50fec1d242f51e91e3dff92bd11ea1f96edff7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 15:56:31 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Correct sentences that did not take into account that build-arch is now mandatory. Closes: #793999 --- policy.sgml | 11

Re: Bug#741573: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 02:12:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit : This is not the case. I made my position clear the first time in the bug log, but one year later Charles decided to restart the discussion while ignoring all that was previously said. That made me angry and I have a policy

Re: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
will be on business trip in Trieste for one week. Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150719123950.gb4

Re: #741573: Menu Policy and Consensus

2015-07-18 Thread Charles Plessy
is whether a single individual can engage in confrontational commit wars to block changes in Debian. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#769818: lintian: false positive for dep5-file-paragraph-reference-header-paragraph

2015-07-07 Thread Charles Plessy
to lintian. Have a nice day, -- Charles Le Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 08:00:09PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Le Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 03:55:46PM +0200, Martin Erik Werner a écrit : In newer versions of lintian, this warning has changed, so the following file: ### Format: http

Bug#769818: Re: Bug#769818: Bug#766118: lintian: False positive for “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright”

2015-06-20 Thread Charles Plessy
that this tag is a false positive on several of my packages (for instance libbio-graphics-perl). Should this bug be re-assigned to lintian ? Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#659070: bad internal links on www.debian.org for developers-reference

2015-06-13 Thread Charles Plessy
as much time for me to remember how the script works than to learn it again from scratch. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#787816: Replace FHS 2.3 by FHS 3.0 in the Policy.

2015-06-05 Thread Charles Plessy
-- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150605114310.gc26...@falafel.plessy.net

Shall we convert the Policy to DocBook XML soonish ? (Re: Q: any reason for debian-policy non-i18n-ed?)

2015-05-21 Thread Charles Plessy
of extra work for the translators. What would people think about switching to DocBook XML within the next six months ? Have a nice day -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#786470: debian-policy: [copyright-format] Add an optional “License-Grant” field

2015-05-21 Thread Charles Plessy
. Experiments on new fields are welcome, and it is good to open bugs to track them. But I think that we should first see how the proposed field gets traction before adding it to the specification. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy

Bug#630174: debian-policy: forbid installation into /lib64

2015-05-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:30:54AM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit : We should document that to prevent /lib64 to be used for wrong purpose. In any case I'm not quite sure whether shipping files in lib64 in amd64 packages (juffed/juffed-dev and zynaddsubfx-dssi do this now) is OK. I only

Bug#621050: Document dependencies needed to use multiarch paths

2015-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
relationship is not needed anymore. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150509050148.ga2

Bug#769818: Bug#766118: lintian: False positive for “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright”

2015-04-18 Thread Charles Plessy
for a different purpose than License fields in Files paragraphs does not change that point. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not

2015-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 09:52:49AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs a écrit : Charles Plessy: Later, I might propose on debian-devel and debian-dpkg to forbid empty fields in the whole specification (which means, since we are not using empty fields, to guarantee that valid files do

Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not

2015-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
, by empty I mean: nothing or whitespace only after the colon.) Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage = important'

2015-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Bug#776203: Please extend LAST_UID 29999 to 59999.

2015-01-25 Thread Charles Plessy
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[developers-reference] branch master updated (3fcd79b - 35daca6)

2015-01-02 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from 3fcd79b Typos found by Mechtilde; Thanks new 35daca6 Update the documentation following the migration from SVN to Git. The 1

Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not

2014-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
of packages having empty fields in source package control files ? I have not found any. (In the sense that a field that only contains a substitution variable is not considered empty). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ

Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not

2014-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 03:08:47PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Charles Plessy wrote: do you have examples of packages having empty fields in source package control files ? I have not found any. (In the sense that a field that only contains

Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not

2014-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 04:14:14PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Charles Plessy wrote: Then they are not empty: there is a big difference between Depends: and Depends: ${foo}. I think that it would be very confusing if we would refer them as empty

Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not

2014-11-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:23:17AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin a écrit : Control: tags -1 + patch On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 11:19:15AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: How about the attached patch, that adds Its value must not be empty. after The field ends at the end of the line or at the end

Bug#758234: [summary] Re: Bug#758234: transitive dependencies

2014-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
package maintainers be enough ? - Should the debian-boot and debian-cd mailing lists be notified as well ? - Is a message to debian-devel needed ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#759260: [summary] Bug#759260: removal of the Extra priority.

2014-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
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Bug#759260: [summary] Bug#759260: removal of the Extra priority.

2014-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
been instrumental for you as a user or a developer, in a way that has no practical alternative ? Or said differently, what would break concretely for you if tomorrow the Optional and Extra priorities were merged ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#758234: transitive dependencies

2014-11-14 Thread Charles Plessy
of information for a binary package's priority when this package is distributed in the Debian archive. (This would close #616055). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#768292: Let's add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ? (was Re: Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files)

2014-11-10 Thread Charles Plessy
forget). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141110224125.ga8...@falafel.plessy.net

Bug#768292: Let's add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ? (was Re: Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files)

2014-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
1146 MPL 2.0 853 SIL OFL 1.0 13 SIL OFL 1.1 567 Total number of packages: 73267 How about adding both MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi

Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-08 Thread Charles Plessy
and long, which is just a matter of taste. :) Good news. Simon, would it solve your problem if the MPL-2.0 license were added to /usr/share/common-license ? (By the way, for the record, I consider that /usr/share/common-license is not a mark of endorsement anyway). Have a nice day, -- Charles

Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-06 Thread Charles Plessy
was no. But you can have a look at tools/license-count in the Policy's source package, and run it again at lintian.debian.org to see if the situation changed significantly. That would solve your problem with this license. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Bug#758234: it's actively harmful

2014-11-01 Thread Charles Plessy
, and the information of what the transitive priority of a package can be calculated or served in a separate way that does not require changes to the Debian archive. Have a nice Sunday. -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: where to maintain DEP8^W autopkgtest spec now

2014-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
for instance #661417. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141013232548.gb27

Bug#759491: Bug#758234: Defining pseudo-essential

2014-08-27 Thread Charles Plessy
better. Thanks. Thanks Russ, I think that this new paragraph is very useful. If need is I second its addition. This addition will cause the current section 3.9 (Maintainer Scripts) to be renumbered 3.10, but I do not expect this to cause big confusions. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy

Bug#759186: debian-policy: please consider adding nodoc as a possible value for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to policy

2014-08-27 Thread Charles Plessy
that the workding is very good, thanks to you and Johannes. I second it, including minor improvements such as the one proposed by Johannes. Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#759186: debian-policy: please consider adding nodoc as a possible value for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to policy

2014-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
documentation”. Do you or others have modifications to propose ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan From 512bca9ac18d8bd4e07eba0b02463369d40420a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:37:41 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q

Bug#759316: Document the use of /etc/default for cron jobs

2014-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140826215608.gc30...@falafel.plessy.net

Bug#758234: Bug#759260: [PATCH] Remove priority extra, make all corresponding packages priority optional

2014-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
not contribute to an area of Debian's development, I think that we need to be parcimonious in opposition, and keep it only for changes that have a major impact on us. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#759260: Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority

2014-08-25 Thread Charles Plessy
that at least a notification is sent on debian-devel. However, given the toxic levels of naysaying on this list, it would be too paralysing to require for a formal consensus. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ

Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Here is a patch to update the Policy accordingly. Do you have comments ? On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:44:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Anybody wanting to see the Testsuite field documented in the Policy, please

Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.5 Severity: wishlist Hi Guillem and everybody, thanks for adding direct support for the Testsuite field in Dpkg. Here is a patch to update the Policy accordingly. Do you have

Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority

2014-08-16 Thread Charles Plessy
overrides. Patches were submitted in 2003 and 2010. Is there a wording that you find more suitable ? - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196367#65 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196367#104 Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.5 Severity: wishlist Hi Guillem and everybody, thanks for adding direct support for the Testsuite field in Dpkg. Here is a patch to update the Policy accordingly. Do you have comments ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan From

Bug#756835: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
field ? Do you think that modifications are needed ? Would you second it ? https://bugs.debian.org/756835 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ

Bug#756835: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
, as this value is assumed for paragraphs lacking this field. - Everybody's suggestions are welcome ! Have a nice week-end, and big thank you to Ansgar and the other FTP Masters for the source-only uploads ! -- Charles Plessy Debian

Re: where to maintain DEP8^W autopkgtest spec now

2014-07-29 Thread Charles Plessy
was transferred to the Policy package, I think that it has being well maintained. I have spent ample time to triage bugs, answer to people, point them to previous discussions, etc. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ

Re: where to maintain DEP8^W autopkgtest spec now

2014-07-23 Thread Charles Plessy
...@lists.alioth.debian.org) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140724004149.gh3

[developers-reference] 02/02: Updated changelog.

2014-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit ce9016122bb6c67aa8407ec2e0b27ee40137819c Author: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org Date: Tue Jul 22 07:42:25 2014 +0900 Updated changelog

[developers-reference] 01/02: Fix typo in NMU section s/blocking/block/

2014-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit ad8f601c4b70ff0212b3cd536091fed9b773de1b Author: Andreas Rönnquist gus...@gusnan.se Date: Mon Jul 21 20:13:43 2014 +0200 Fix typo in NMU

Bug#755515: developers-reference: A bit strange wording in the NMU section

2014-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
, it is desirable +issues, or fixes for trivial bugs that block a transition, it is desirable that the fixed package reaches literalunstable/literal sooner. Applied, thank you. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

[developers-reference] branch master updated (be8424b - ce90161)

2014-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. plessy pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from be8424b Prepare changelog for upload. new ad8f601 Fix typo in NMU section s/blocking/block/ new ce90161 Updated

Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

2014-07-12 Thread Charles Plessy
be used + instead (see packageautotools-dev/package documentation for + details how to achieve that). On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:42:23AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I agree with the intent, but I think that the wording is too restrictive, since a package

Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

2014-07-11 Thread Charles Plessy
a large number of source packages. See the documentation of packageautotools-dev/package or packagedh-autoreconf/package for examples on how to achieve that. (Feel free to correct my English). Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

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