Your message dated Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:02:13 +0000 with message-id <e1s0psj-0007az...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#626338: fixed in debian-policy 3.9.3.0 has caused the Debian Bug report #626338, regarding debian-policy: Clarification of 10.5 symlink wording to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 Severity: minor The wording of section 10.5, where it says whether symlinks should be absolute or relative, is not particularly clear if the symlink is to a top-level file or directory rather than into one (such as a link from /var/run to /run). The intent was to require that these be absolute links so that, were /var a symlink to some other location, the /var/run symlink would still work properly. The rationale should be mentioned in a non-normative footnote. Carsten Hey suggests: As already mentioned, I don't think the wording of §10.5 strictly applies to the /run symlink. "lib64 -> /lib" also somehow involves different top-level directories, but (contrary to the /run symlink), the reason why §10.5 is in the policy does not apply to it. To match the original intention more closely and to clarify §10.5, | symbolic links pointing from one top-level directory into another | should be absolute could be written as ("out of" was stolen from [1]): | symbolic links pointing out of a top-level directory should be | absolute or alternatively as: | symbolic links pointing from one top-level directory out of it should | be absolute -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.10.1 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Source: debian-policy Source-Version: 3.9.3.0 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: debian-policy_3.9.3.0.dsc to main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.9.3.0.dsc debian-policy_3.9.3.0.tar.gz to main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.9.3.0.tar.gz debian-policy_3.9.3.0_all.deb to main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.9.3.0_all.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 626...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-policy package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800 Source: debian-policy Binary: debian-policy Architecture: source all Version: 3.9.3.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Description: debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents Closes: 23712 89038 498300 532120 578421 593533 609162 617315 617516 619275 620870 621479 623050 626338 626408 626779 626796 627490 628540 633797 637614 640735 640737 641071 643690 644230 646119 646166 648387 649674 651020 658209 Changes: debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low . [ Russ Allbery ] * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder. (Closes: #658209, #648387) * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119) * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Seconded: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Seconded: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> Closes: #626779 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright Wording: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Seconded: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Seconded: Andrew McMillan <and...@morphoss.com> Closes: #593533 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <k...@jorgensen.org.uk> Wording: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <j...@computer.org> Closes: #609162 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile Wording: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Closes: #23712 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run Wording: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Seconded: Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> Closes: #620870, #532120 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> Seconded: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Closes: #498300 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy Wording: Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> Seconded: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Seconded: Andrew McMillan <and...@morphoss.com> Closes: #89038 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796) * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover. (Closes: #627490) * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315) * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks, Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338) * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl source package and the manual page extensions are different for separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690) * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free, bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166) * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #651020) * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly addresses #587279. * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks, Slavko. * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist. * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist. * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks, Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408) * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that, when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy. * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count. * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout. * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules. . [ Bill Allombert ] * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification strings (11.1). Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174. * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8) Proposed by: Justin B Rye Wording: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> Seconded: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Seconded: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Closes: #621479 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License. Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #623050 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry. Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX. Wording: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Closes: #641071 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright files (12.5) Wording: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> Closes: #617516 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix Wording: Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> Seconded: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> Closes: #640735 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples. Proposed by: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> Closes: #649674 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception: Wording: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Seconded: Craig Small <csm...@debian.org> Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> Closes: #633797 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org Wording: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Seconded: David Prévot <taf...@debian.org> Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Closes: #640737 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <d...@debian.org> Seconded: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Closes: #619275 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}. Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwama...@nigauri.org> Seconded: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> Closes: #644230 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine. Proposed by: Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> Seconded: tony mancill <tmanc...@debian.org> Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> Closes: #578421 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base. 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