Bug#569174: debian-policy: Changelog date is not in RFC822 format.
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 Severity: normal Hello everybody, in Policy § 4.4, one can read: “The date must be in RFC822 format”. However, RFC822 dates use only two numbers for the years. The phrase should probably refer to another standard, like RFC 2822 or posterior, in which years are indicated with four numbers, like in our changelogs. 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...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#569219: Document transitional and meta-packages
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch We have several meta-packages and transitional packages in the archive, some of them do not document that anywhere in their description. Users should be given such an information, so they can decide to remove some to save disk space and to remove useless packages from the system. I propose to clearly state a package is a meta-package or a transitioanl package in the long description. This is a common practice already. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-486 Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Index: best-pkging-practices.dbk === --- best-pkging-practices.dbk (revisione 7068) +++ best-pkging-practices.dbk (copia locale) @@ -343,6 +343,13 @@ this about this particular package, if you have information related to both). --> + +If the package is a meta-package (a package which depends on one or more +packages) or a transitional package (a package provided to ease upgrades to +packages with a different name), you should clearly state so identifying +what kind of package it belongs, that way users are given the chance to remove +potential useless packages without losing any functionality. +
