Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files

2002-05-17 Thread John R. Daily
At (time_t)1021654369 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > So, each header line is logically a single line, phisically it > may be broken into multiple lines with leading spaces. If policy should be changed to allow this for all fields, it may make sense to simply defer to RFC 822. -John Daily [EMAI

Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files

2002-05-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Junichi" == Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Junichi> In my reading of policy, policy doesn't currently allow it. Junichi> Either those packages need to be fixed, or Junichi> policy. I don't think 2% of packages not following policy Junichi> should be enough to change policy, co

Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files

2002-05-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:18:55AM -0500, "John R. Daily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > In my reading of policy, policy doesn't currently allow it. > > Either those packages need to be fixed, or > > policy. I don't think 2% of packages not following policy > > should be enough to chan

Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files

2002-05-17 Thread John R. Daily
At (time_t)1021649088 Junichi Uekawa wrote: > In my reading of policy, policy doesn't currently allow it. > Either those packages need to be fixed, or > policy. I don't think 2% of packages not following policy > should be enough to change policy, considering the usefulness > of simple tools like

Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files

2002-05-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > I still find it useful to grep and sed the Packages file. I don't > > see any advantage in allowing multi-line fields that would compensate > > for that. > > FWIW, dpkg does allow it. Debian policy is free to not allow it of > course.

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2002-05-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Bug#147164: www.debian.org: DDP policy is too out of date

2002-05-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Javier [Sorry, I CCed many mailing list. I only read -www and -doc. Please someone tell me where I should go.] On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:11:30PM +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-16 > Severity: important > > (didn't now