Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:08:46 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> We discussed including all of XSI, but there's a pile of other stuff
>> in XSI that I think we decided that dash didn't actually implement. I
>> don't remember the details
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:10:41 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> The following patch, from branch bug458910-rra, looks good to me.
>> That's two seconds, so I should merge it. Is there s
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:24:12 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Do you honestly think that the chnages to dpkg should have been kept
>> out, until they managed to get policy changed? That dpkg would have
>> been kept out of lenny until they fixed dpkg not to have the
>> interface me
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:07:05 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:39:21 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> said:
>>> Joey had reported at the time that most programs in Debian had moved
>>> to using sensibl
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:08:46 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I think recent discussion on the libtool list revealed that libtool
> used numbers for one of the signals that XSI doesn't allow you to use
> signals for (SIGPIPE, I think it was, but I didn't go check).
> Ironically, l
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:10:41 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The following patch, from branch bug458910-rra, looks good to me.
> That's two seconds, so I should merge it. Is there some way that I
> can include the Acked-by informat
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:39:40 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> That's actually on my to-do list. I think that belongs in Policy as
>> well (particularly the non-Browser headers, which are used for
>> interoperability within the projec
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The following patch, from branch bug458910-rra, looks good to
> me.
That's two seconds, so I should merge it. Is there some way that I can
include the Acked-by information in a merge when I do the merge? Hm,
actually, I'm guessing probably
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would not have minded trying to fix 179 packages to use signal
> names rather than numbers; but if Autoconf and Libtool use numbers,
> then the problem grows larger.
>
> Mind you, XSI extensions allow the use of numbers instead of
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:39:21 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Joey had reported at the time that most programs in Debian had moved to
>> using sensible-browser or honoring BROWSER, but that was some time ago
>> and the archive has mov
Hi,
The following patch, from branch bug458910-rra, looks good to
me.
manoj
> Document that an empty Debian revision is equivalent to a Debian
> revision of 0 and clarify the way version numbers are compared. Thanks
> to Raphael Hertzog for information about what dpkg does.
Ac
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:03:35 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If that sounds good, I'll merge from master into all the pending bug
>> branches
> I did this anyway, since there seems to be no downside. I also
> deleted the stray bug bran
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:49:47 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> With Adam agreeing to make this private conversation public, please
>> read below and comment. If necessary I don't mind a report to be
>> filled against the package.
> P
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:39:21 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Joey had reported at the time that most programs in Debian had moved
> to using sensible-browser or honoring BROWSER, but that was some time
> ago and the archive has moved on since then. I'm not sure (outside of
> the
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:39:40 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:14:18 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> said:
>>
>>> Policy is the only formal documentation we have right now of the
>>> control fields in
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I suggest to end this paragraph with
>
> + system (for example, a package that builds the same source
> + multiple times to generate different binary packages, or a
> + package which had to change the upstream tarball due to
> + te
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +
> + debian/README.source may also include any other
> + information that would be helpful to someone modifying the
> + source package. Even if the package doesn't fit the above
> + description, maintainers are encouraged to
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here is a proposed patch that also clarifies the comparison of version
> numbers a bit. Seconds?
Seconded. Looks fine.
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Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also we must consider if that's something better standardized at the
> freedesktop level. Consider for example that we might want to mandate
> the usage of xdg-open to call a browser, that matches existing pratice
> and xdg-open could be modified so th
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:14:18 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>> Policy is the only formal documentation we have right now of the
>> control fields in a Debian package, so I think there's at least a prima
>> facie argument for adding a
Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Since the Artistic, BSD, GPL, and LGPL licenses are included in
>>> /usr/share/common-licenses, would it be possible to get the SIL OFL
>>> included as well?
>> It's in many respects b
Russ Allbery wrote:
Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Since the Artistic, BSD, GPL, and LGPL licenses are included in
/usr/share/common-licenses, would it be possible to get the SIL OFL
included as well?
It's in many respects better to include the license directly in
debian/copyright,
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:14:18 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Policy is the only formal documentation we have right now of the
> control fields in a Debian package, so I think there's at least a
> prima facie argument for adding a specification for any new fields to
> Policy, at le
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Various other software, like debsign and dak, had to be changed. The
> policy is not just about what the general package maintainer should
> know, it's also how our tools should interact.
>
> If you don't think the format of the .dsc and .changes should b
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > No, thanks. Let's please not allow programs to say "I'll ignore your
> > system-wide setting because I use some other system-wide setting
> > instead". There should be only one default browser on a system.
>
> I agree to that. And I think this is a re
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:04:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:02:55 +0200, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > dpkg has added new fields in the .dsc and .changes file.
>
> > They both can now contains two new fields: Checksums-Sha1
> > Checksums-Sha256
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