Re: List of Policy delegates

2009-04-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Adeodato Simó writes: > Anyway, I wrote to ask if somebody could please submit a bug against > www.debian.org providing a list of the list of current Policy > delegates, so that http://www.debian.org/intro/organization can be > updated. I just sent mail to Steve asking for the delegation to be u

List of Policy delegates

2009-04-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Colin Watson (Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:51:55 +0100): Hey, > I've committed a fix to our git repository, of course Oh, I see RT#1138 now, though I can't seem to find a mail mentioning these delegations/incorporations, but that could just be me not keeping up with may mail. Anyway, I wrote to ask if

Bug#521810: debian-policy: Document user defined fields starting with X-

2009-04-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > Another option could be to add a new modifier, like P(rivate) or > U(ser), to be used like XPBS-Field: which would preserve the X-. But > then you need a new enough dpkg-dev to be able to get that field. I like that idea. It's not a big deal to have to u

Re: Bug#521810: debian-policy: Document user defined fields starting with X-

2009-04-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 01:10:20 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Nils Rennebarth writes: > > > > Usually, unknown fields are iggnored by the debian packaging system. To > > > > avoid conflicts of user d

Bug#521810: debian-policy: Document user defined fields starting with X-

2009-04-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 12:03:09 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > > If you're going to standardize a prefix that's purely for private, > > internal use and will never, ever be standardized in any fashion, could I > > convince you (and Nils) to use a pref