Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-05 Thread Ben Finney
On 05-Mar-2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > at the same time, your patch would make it mandatory to write a > get-orig-source target when uscan(1) can not do the job. […] Can you > soften your wording to the current "optional" status ? Agreed. I also should have used the standard document markup for v

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:46:48AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > The game data defines what game you play; the engine > defines _how_ you play it. Personally, I couldn't care > less how exactly a game is run on my system, as long as it > is a game I like. IOW, the data is what the user will > cho

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:03:57AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: >> A brief explanation as to their meaning. Doom games are >> divided into engine and world-resource components. The >> former is captured by 'doom-engine'. > > I don't understand why we need a 'doom-engine'

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:27:31PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > a 'boom-wad' should depend on the virtual engine: 'doom-engine', > a 'doom-wad' should depend on the virtual engine: 'doom-engine'. > but not all doom-engines support boom data. This was my confusion: > two virtual package on d

Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:39:50PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > I've proposed a patch to policy (in bug#466550) to bring policy in > line with this practice. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466550#42 - This target is optional, but providing it if

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:03:57AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: A brief explanation as to their meaning. Doom games are divided into engine and world-resource components. The former is captured by 'doom-engine'. I don't understand why we need a '

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:03:57AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: >> A brief explanation as to their meaning. Doom games are >> divided into engine and world-resource components. The >> former is captured by 'doom-engine'. > > I don't understand why we need a 'doom-engine'

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Jon Dowland wrote: A brief explanation as to their meaning. Doom games are divided into engine and world-resource components. The former is captured by 'doom-engine'. I don't understand why we need a 'doom-engine' virtual package. [i.e.: avoid circular dependencies]. IMHO, a user will select a

Processed: Re: Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2009-03-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > package debian-policy Ignoring bugs not assigned to: debian-policy > tags 466550 + patch Bug#466550: Clarify or remove the get-orig-source target specification There were no tags set. Tags added: patch > thanks Stopping processing here. Please

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2009-03-05 Thread Ben Finney
package debian-policy tags 466550 + patch thanks On 19-Feb-2008, Andres Mejia wrote: > When considering the phrase in policy "...does any necessary > rearrangement to turn it into the original source tar file > format...", it makes more sense when it refers to the original > source tar file of the

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2009-03-05 Thread Ben Finney
On 21-Feb-2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > the question now is whether this directive actually makes sense as > policy at this point. It obviously does not reflect common > practice, since the common practice is not to implement this > target. Practice is, I think, changing recently in respons