Kel Modderman writes:
> It is the opinion of myself and Petter Reinholdtsen, maintainers of the
> sysvinit package, that the last sentence of ยง9.3.1 of policy is no
> longer relevant and should be removed:
>
> """Also, if the script name ends in .sh, the script will be sourced in
> runlevel S rat
Colin Watson writes:
> I'd say:
>
> The Debian Social Contract simply refers to "areas".
>
> ... to emphasise the fact (as it seems to me) that the SC is
> non-specific.
>
> I don't think we should feel tied to the SC's vague choice of words. I
> strongly suspect that (a) the authors were more
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Raphael Hertzog writes:
> It depends, and there can be some repetition when needed to ease the
> comprehension. But you don't need to know the .changes syntax to create
> policy conformant packages, you just have to know how to call
> dpgk-genchanges and what to put in debian/files and debian/cha
Colin Watson writes:
> However, I'm not convinced that it is correct to remove this feature
> from the *syntax*. While Ubuntu's archive maintenance software doesn't
> support it right now, several people have requested it
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/235064). If you're maintaining
> p
Raphael Hertzog writes:
> Agreed.
>
> In the long term, I would like to move all the documentation about the
> syntax into dpkg itself and have the policy document how Debian uses
> dpkg rather than documenting dpkg itself.
>
> It's already in our TODO list to document the format of .dsc, .change
Raphael Hertzog writes:
> We don't want that, feel free to reword that part to frighten people
> that would like to use it just because that sentence says you can rely
> on it. :)
I re-read this whole section while applying your patch and decided that
the wording of the whole section could be i
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