Re: Bug#458385: New version of Artistic License

2009-08-30 Thread Jonathan Yu
While on principle I agree with Charles Plessy about the merits of including this license despite not having the "critical mass" that Debian would like, I understand the view of those in the policy team and respect their decision. For what it's worth, I've added a machine-readable-copyright-format

Bug#542288: debian-policy: Version numbering: native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads

2009-08-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/08/09 at 23:29 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 04:25:37PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> Given that devscripts, lintian, and the dev-ref > >> all advocate or implement +nmu\d+, and that debhelper and cd

Bug#544353: debian-policy: Offer One Big HTML http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

2009-08-30 Thread Jari Aalto
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 Severity: wishlist Please offer link to a One Big HTML page, which would: - be easier to search (forward, backward) - store to browser's offline cache -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'),