Policy 3.8.1

2009-03-01 Thread Russ Allbery
I think it's time (really, probably past time) for the 3.8.1 upload. There's still some stuff in flight, but that's always going to be true, and a lot of bugs are already fixed in Git. My intention is to upload 3.8.1 next weekend, which will hopefully give me time to prepare a corresponding Lintia

Bug#446712: [PATCH] Allow comments in debian/control (bug#446712)

2009-03-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Adeodato Simó writes: > Seconded, with or without: > >> + comment lines starting with # > preceded by no whitespace. > > Or some wording to that effect. The rationale is that it's very common > for files that accept #-style comments to accept them if # is preceded > by whitesp

Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, setting package to debian-policy, tagging 446712

2009-03-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org Setting user to debian-pol...@packages.debian.org (was r...@debian.org). > package debian-policy Ignoring bugs not assigned to: debian-policy > tags 446712 pending Bug#446712: Document comments are permitted

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-02-27 19:34:04, schrieb Bill Allombert: > Well there were some problems with popularity-contest, see bug #326593 > IIRC for sending to both f...@example.com and b...@example.com: > ssmtp allows > sendmail -oi f...@example.com,b...@example.com > but not courrier-mta which want > sendmail

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 1. März 2009, Carsten Hey wrote: > And using stable and testing repositories together, e.g. during > dist-upgrades, will be forbidden? If not, it can't be avoided. So what? It's not supported and the user has to fix manually. No big deal. regards, Holger signature.as

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 1. März 2009, Carsten Hey wrote: > In my opinion it is a way better practise to first update the policy and > then adapt n packages instead of first change them in a way which is > possibly against the policy and expect the policy to be updated > accordingly. There is nothing _aga

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:55:23PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Hello, > [exim4 hat on] > Neither me nor Marc could come up with obvious problems in the > proposal. I doubt this is an importartant data point, though. I do > not think I am exceptionally qualified to find any problems (if > they

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-01 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:25:38PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > ... if apt would try to solve a dependency on the virtual package > default-mta provided by exim4 and exim5 it would ... choose to install > exim4 in the described case ... In case of a virtual default-mta package, the existence of a t

Re: Bug#446712: [PATCH] Allow comments in debian/control (bug#446712)

2009-03-01 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 22:07:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -2450,6 +2450,14 @@ Package: libc6 > See for details. > > > + > + In addition to the control file syntax described + id="controlsyntax">above, this fi

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-01 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:55:23PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > We could have a exim4 upload implementing in sid this rather quickly > after receiving a go. In general I much prefer a virtual package over a real one but I think we should wait a bit until the following issues are clarified: On

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2009-02-27 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:42:39PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: [...] >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00381.html with the best >> choice appearantly being <87ve1faria@frosties.localdomain> which >> proposes that exim4 should provide de

Bug#446712: [PATCH] Allow comments in debian/control (bug#446712)

2009-03-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 22:07:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Julien Cristau writes: > > > meh. forgot to actually send this to the bug. > > Thank you! > > It occurred to me to check behavior with multiline fields as well. Here's > a slightly modified version documenting that. Does this stil

Bug#446712: [PATCH] Allow comments in debian/control (bug#446712)

2009-03-01 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Russ Allbery [Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:07:36 -0800]: > It occurred to me to check behavior with multiline fields as well. Here's > a slightly modified version documenting that. Does this still look good > to you? (And also requesting seconds from others.) > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml >