* Russ Allbery [Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:37:37 -0800]:
> > I think Policy should not attempt to make up its own terminology here,
> > so I'd like to change it to match either dak or the Social Contract.
> > After thinking about it for a bit, I favor going to the terminology of
> > the Social Contract w
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> However, there doesn't appear to be any consensus on this right now. So
> this is a ping to see if we do have consensus and people just haven't
> said, or if we don't. If we don't have consensus, my inclination is to
> close this bug and continue using c
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Having a canonical implementation of the version comparison in a C
> library would be super, since all the other languages could just
> wrap it.
The implementation I wrote for debbugs is a fallback for when
libapt-pkg-perl isn't around; I think any languag
Russ Allbery writes:
> I did a bit more research based on Osamu Aoki's excellent work.
> Currently, these things are referred to using three different terms:
>
> * dak calls them components.
> * The current Debian Policy document calls them categories.
> * The Social Contract calls them areas:
>
This is another long-standing proposed patch (since July of last year)
that didn't receive much comment.
Russ Allbery writes:
> Josip Rodin writes:
>> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:26:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> Here is a proposed change to loosen this requirement. Please comment.
>>> One
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I finally found some time to write new proposed wording for the section in
Policy on handling architecture-restricted dependencies. Could you review
this change and be sure that I'm correctly describing the situation? I
added a new, fairly complicated example based on one of the ones that
Guillem
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:40:46PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:19:40 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > I'd like to hear from members of this list what they think about the
> > following issue: I just noticed that to determine whether two Debian
> > versions are equ
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