Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, setting package to debian-policy, tagging 533577

2009-06-18 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 533577 = pending Bug#533577: Breaks are supported in stabl

Bug#533577: Breaks are supported in stable, so are now allowed in the archive

2009-06-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > Breaks support is present in the version of dpkg in lenny, and there > are already multiple uses of Breaks in the archive now for unstable. > The disclaimer about not using Breaks should be dropped. Yes. Also: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -4443,12 +4443,6 @@

Bug#533577: Breaks are supported in stable, so are now allowed in the archive

2009-06-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: debian-policy Tags: patch Breaks support is present in the version of dpkg in lenny, and there are already multiple uses of Breaks in the archive now for unstable. The disclaimer about not using Breaks should be dropped. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough a

Bug#532120: Require support for temporary /var/run/ and /var/lock in all packages

2009-06-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:04:21AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 05:01:46PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Therefore, I propose to change the requirement so that all packages must > > support /var/run/ and /var/lock/ on temporary filesystems, and not only > > those whi

Re: Bug#533287: debian-policy: please clarify 10.7.4

2009-06-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Jun 18 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:54:10PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: >> In message #36 [0] and #46 [1], he told me that we should either keep it >> as an symlink or just edit automatically /etc/kernel-img.conf >> /etc/kernel-img.conf is edited by grub-installe

Re: debian-policy 3.8.2.0 released

2009-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:31:22PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > I just released 3.8.2.0. Thanks for this. Sorry, I think I'd taken an action to do this but then had a flurry of activity elsewhere and it slipped off my plate ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@de

Bug#532120: Require support for temporary /var/run/ and /var/lock in all packages

2009-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 05:01:46PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > The wording of Policy 9.3.2's > > /var/run and /var/lock may be mounted as temporary filesystems[60], so the > init.d scripts must handle this correctly. > > only applies to init.d scripts. But init.d scripts are not the onl

Bug#533287: debian-policy: please clarify 10.7.4

2009-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:54:10PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > For example we grub/grub2 maintainers have the problem that some people > still have /sbin/update-grub in their /etc/kernel-img.conf. > grub-legacy has a wrapper to warn about this since etch, but we recently > got a bug report in gru