Bug#522217: debian-policy: Drop requirement to pre-depend on x11-common

2009-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau writes: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 05:08:38 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: >> how about: >> >>The installation of files into subdirectories of >>/usr/X11R6/is now prohibited. Include files >>should be installed into /usr/include/X11/. For >>f

Bug#522217: debian-policy: Drop requirement to pre-depend on x11-common

2009-04-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 05:08:38 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > how about: > > The installation of files into subdirectories of > /usr/X11R6/is now prohibited. Include files > should be installed into /usr/include/X11/. For > files that previously would

Bug#525190: debian-policy: Please drop perl >= 5.6 from (Build-|)Depends requirements

2009-04-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.1.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch As discussed on -devel & -policy, here's a patch to stop mentioning perl 5.6 in Depends and Build-Depends. A reference to 5.6 remains in the “Perl 6” part, though. Attaching the result of git format-patch against master (git

Re: Bug#524998: ITP: libmqdb-perl -- MappedQueryDB toolkit for federated databases

2009-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Cyril Brulebois writes: > can we please get rid of that obsolete version requirement? > > More reasons in <20090421162239.gb26...@debian.org>: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/04/msg00792.html > > (Contacting -policy since that's the address given at the bottom of the > perl-policy p

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Re: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data

2009-04-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: And this is like 6 lines of Pseudo code, and less in compact languages like Perl. A fairly trivial exercise in basic CS logic. Please do not insist on the number of lines. I mentioned in my mail [1] that you need a bit more. I did not said

Re: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data

2009-04-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Apr 21 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> So long as we have an implementation which works for the vast majority >> of cases we can file bugs to make it work for the few cases where it >> doesn't. (Or the output can just be slightly broken in those

Re: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data

2009-04-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Apr 22 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:36:31PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: >> No. Adding blank lines before lists is also required. > > ... so, agreed. The extra price to pay to use Markdown would be that > additional line insertion. And this is lik

Bug#525151: Clarify format of source package name

2009-04-22 Thread Enrico Zini
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.1.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello, Policy 5.6.7. `Package' defines "The name of the binary package.", but it does not seem that the format of source package names is restricted anythere. Sanity as well as, I'd say, common use, would say source has the s

Re: Bug#524998: ITP: libmqdb-perl -- MappedQueryDB toolkit for federated databases

2009-04-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(No need to Cc me if you keep -devel in the loop.) gregor herrmann (21/04/2009): > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:22:39 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > > > libdbd-sqlite3-perl (>= 1.14), libdbi-perl (>= 1.51), perl (>= > > > > > 5.6.0-12) > > > >

Re: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data

2009-04-22 Thread Ben Finney
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:36:31PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > > No. Adding blank lines before lists is also required. > > ... so, agreed. The extra price to pay to use Markdown would be that > additional line insertion. FWIW, the use of reST as a format specifi

Re: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data (Was: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions)

2009-04-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:36:31PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > > I've the impression that you didn't read my post, I might be wrong > > though. > Do you read mine ? Yes, but not the prev(prev(.)), sorry about that. > > With that convention, you can use Markdown out of the box (on each > > pa