Re: Goals of debian/copyright

2009-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:25:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I've had that conversation I think five separate times now and each >> time seem to have convinced people, which is why debian/copyright is >> what's recommended in devref and similar sources (see devref 6.7

Processed: updating submitter e-mail address

2009-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # changing bug submitter e-mail address from > # dkg-debian@fifthhorsemannet to > # d...@fifthhorseman.net for consolidation > submitter 318123 ! Bug#318123: [CVE-2006-0061] xlockmore: xlock segfaults with libpam-opensc, returns to user sessi

Re: Install-info transition, review time

2009-03-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > I don't like the sound of this. Why is it necessary to provide > /usr/sbin/install-info? I assume this is out of concern that some packages > will be calling install-info with an explicit path, but that's been contrary > to Policy for years ("Programs

Re: Install-info transition, review time

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:34:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 07:21:15AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Also, is the new dpkg going to Pre-Depend: on this new install-info > > > package? > > > If not, what does this /usr/sbin/install-info wrapper script do when > > > cal

Re: Install-info transition, review time

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:51 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: Sorry, forgot to keep the CC: for policy. > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:05:43PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > the dpkg team and the texinfo maintainer have laid out a plan to > > get rid of dpkg /usr/sbin/install-info and start relyi

Re: Install-info transition, review time

2009-03-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 07:21:15AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Also, is the new dpkg going to Pre-Depend: on this new install-info package? > > If not, what does this /usr/sbin/install-info wrapper script do when called > > and /usr/bin/install-info is absent? Packages currently call install-i

Re: Install-info transition, review time

2009-03-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:05:43PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > the dpkg team and the texinfo maintainer have laid out a plan to > get rid of dpkg /usr/sbin/install-info and start relying on > GNU's install-info when needed. This will involve some work to > transition properly. We have describe