Bug#473019: debian-policy: clarification needed for "local" builtin exception for /bin/sh

2008-03-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Thanks for the quick response, Russ. On Thu 2008-03-27 16:16:31 -0400, Russ Allbery wrote: > The intention when I originally wrote the text was to not allow declaring > multiple variables with one local line, since at the time I was told that > some shells didn't support this. > > I think your fi

Bug#473019: debian-policy: clarification needed for "local" builtin exception for /bin/sh

2008-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.7.3.0 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > The "scripts" section of chapter 10 is somewhat ambiguous about > whether declaring multiple local variables is acceptable or not: > > file:///usr/share/doc/debian-poli

Bug#473019: debian-policy: clarification needed for "local" builtin exception for /bin/sh

2008-03-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch The "scripts" section of chapter 10 is somewhat ambiguous about whether declaring multiple local variables is acceptable or not: file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-files.html#s-scripts For example, is the follo

Re: Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:47:52 -0600, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava dijo [Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:16:17AM -0500]: >> > Of course, I'm playing with the numbers. There are still smaller >> > machines, there are the embedded-minded people, and of course, >> > there would be

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > _One_ thing that makes me favor common-licenses is being able to do > wide checks to count the number of packages saying to adhere to a > given license - As I said, nothing guarantees that the COPYING file in > my (upstream) package is the same as in yours

Re: Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Manoj Srivastava dijo [Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:16:17AM -0500]: > > Of course, I'm playing with the numbers. There are still smaller > > machines, there are the embedded-minded people, and of course, there > > would be no sane way to verify the GPL3 was the same GPL3 all over if > > we were to kill

Re: Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:51:24 -0600, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Of course, I'm playing with the numbers. There are still smaller > machines, there are the embedded-minded people, and of course, there > would be no sane way to verify the GPL3 was the same GPL3 all over if > we were to