Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-04-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, Thank you for the feedback, Simon. I tried to incorporate what you said while avoiding talking about the namespace pairs, for the sake of readability. Further, I shortened "upstream version without the epoch" to "upstream version" because the epoch is a Debian thing. Seeking seconds: >

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2018-04-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Adrian, Thank you for your continued effort to get this bug resolved. On Sat, Mar 10 2018, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> Please expand on why you think this is the way we have to proceed. > > you skipped the part of my email with the explanation: > > with such a piecemeal approach > we risk fr

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2018-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 12:00:29PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Adrian, > > Thank you for your continued effort to get this bug resolved. > > On Sat, Mar 10 2018, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >> Please expand on why you think this is the way we have to proceed. > > > > you skipped the part of my

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2018-04-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed, Apr 04 2018, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This ensures that policy will always be horribly outdated. Policy is meant to lag behind practice. One of the reasons for this is that it ensures that no-one feels they have to update Policy before innovating. The extent to which it lags is a fu

Bug#891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump

2018-04-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Ian, On Fri, Feb 23 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > We had another thread on debian-devel recently, in which it once again > became evident that epochs are misunderstood. Epoch bumps should be > rare and there are often better solutions. I suggest that we should > ask people to consult debian-

Bug#891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump

2018-04-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon, Feb 26 2018, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > This needs to be reworded. "the +really convention" is probably not > really policy material (feels more like devref's) and therfore probably > not mentioned here. I disagree. Policy often describes conventions; in particular, conventions tha