Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages

2009-02-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Is the reason why you can't rely on configured for the prerm case the same > reason why you can't rely on it for the postinst case: because of breaking > circular dependencies and choosing one package to deconfigure first? It No, I believe it's a design

Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages

2009-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Please find a proposed patch in attachment. Feel free to reword/improve > if needed. Is the reason why you can't rely on configured for the prerm case the same reason why you can't rely on it for the postinst case: because of breaking circular dependencies and choosing

Bug#514919: Removing support for uploads to multiple distributions

2009-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
"Adam D. Barratt" writes: > The Policy section detailing the "Distribution" field in .changes files > specifies that the field may contain a space-separated list of > distributions. Whilst this is technically accurate, the feature has been > deprecated since the "testing" distribution became an o

Bug#514919: Removing support for uploads to multiple distributions

2009-02-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.1.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, The Policy section detailing the "Distribution" field in .changes files specifies that the field may contain a space-separated list of distributions. Whilst this is technically accurate, the feature has been deprecated since the "test

Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages

2009-02-11 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:31:34AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index f5c6818..8727be1 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -4323,10 +4323,17 @@ Build-Depends: foo [!i386] | bar [!amd64] > The Depends field should also be used

Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages

2009-02-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 01 Feb 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > There isn't any further discussion of this in the bug log, and I don't > think there was a reply outside of the bug log. I agree with Colin that > simply changing present to unpacked is potentially confusing, but I would > like to clarify the case fo