Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
Now that the terminology is in, the patch to address the normative issue
in this bug is short and simple. Objections or seconds?
This has been merged for the next release.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index c0415c1..9aca16c 100644
---
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
One of the first steps to be able to address this bug is to talk about
these files in a coherent way. This raises the unfortunate spectre of
the repeated use of control file for both files in the control.tar.gz
member of a *.deb archive and for files
Hi,
On 19/07/10 18:49, Russ Allbery wrote:
Now that the terminology is in, the patch to address the normative issue
in this bug is short and simple. Objections or seconds?
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index c0415c1..9aca16c 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8014,6
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:49:31 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index c0415c1..9aca16c 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8014,6 +8014,12 @@ endscript
/footnote
/p
+ p
+ Control information files should be owned
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2010-07-19, 09:49:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index c0415c1..9aca16c 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8014,6 +8014,12 @@ endscript
/footnote
/p
+ p
+ Control information files should be owned by
Hi,
On 04/07/10 02:40, Russ Allbery wrote:
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary
package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in
Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This
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
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes:
Here's a review from a non-native speaker.
Thank you!
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 17:40:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
+A tt.deb/tt package contains two sets of files: a set of files
+to installed on the system when the package is installed, and a
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary
package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in
Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This
seems like something that should be discussed
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary
package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in
Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This
seems like something that
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
In addition, Lintian also warns if a control file is empty or if it's not
one of the known set of control files, which at present is:
clilibs config control conffiles md5sums postinst preinst postrm
prerm shlibs
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary
package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in
Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This
seems like something
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes:
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
In addition, Lintian also warns if a control file is empty or if it's not
one of the known set of control files, which at present is:
clilibs config control conffiles md5sums
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