Re: Policy of capitalisation of in /usr/share/?

Hi Danai, On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:08:10PM +0200, Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote: > I recently posted bug #545127 (see [1]) as I noticed that the package > `publican' stores some shared files in /usr/share/Publican/ but stores > its documentation in /usr/share/doc/publican/. > As an end user, I expec

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

Bill Allombert writes: > I have pushed a branch bug544353-ballombe to the git repository with a > fix that bug. I also attach the patch. Looks good to me and I have no objections. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#544981: debian-policy: Discourage native packages that are not tightly specific to Debian

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:49:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:26:10PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > >>Given the recent thread in debian-devel[1], I think we should document in > > >>policy that packages that are not tightly related to Debian

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Policy of capitalisation of in /usr/share/?

Dear all I recently posted bug #545127 (see [1]) as I noticed that the package `publican' stores some shared files in /usr/share/Publican/ but stores its documentation in /usr/share/doc/publican/. As an end user, I expected /usr/share/publican/, given that the package name is `publican'. However

Re: Bug#545127: Policy of capitalisation of in /usr/share/?

Twas brillig at 15:08:10 05.09.2009 UTC+02 when da...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: DS> The Debian Policy [2] has two places in which it says something DS> about /usr/share/: sections 8.2 (Shared library support files) and DS> 10.7.3 (Configuration Files > Behavior). However, according to

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

On 05/09/09 at 14:26 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 04 Sep 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I thought there had been one in the sarge timeframe; but I'm not going to go > > digging any farther to confirm this. Yes, the problem is more or less > > theoretical. > > AFAIK, dak always refused

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

On Fri, 04 Sep 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > I thought there had been one in the sarge timeframe; but I'm not going to go > digging any farther to confirm this. Yes, the problem is more or less > theoretical. AFAIK, dak always refused uploads that would create such problems so maintainers have to

Bug#544981: debian-policy: Discourage native packages that are not tightly specific to Debian

Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:26:10PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> Wouter Verhelst wrote: Given the recent thread in debian-devel[1], I think we should document in policy that packages that are not tightly related to Debian shouldn't be native. >>> *sigh* >>> >>>

Re: Bug#545081: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should UNCONDITIONALLY invoke debian/rules build-arch

On Fri, 04 Sep 2009, Zack Weinberg wrote: > I disagree that this is 229357. That bug is about Build-Options. > This is a new proposal to *unconditionally* use build-arch in > dpkg-buildpackage -B. I'm not going to play control ping-pong, but > please reconsider. It's all the same, we can't fix t

Bug#544981: debian-policy: Discourage native packages that are not tightly specific to Debian

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:26:10PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >>Given the recent thread in debian-devel[1], I think we should document in > >>policy that packages that are not tightly related to Debian shouldn't be > >>native. > > > >*sigh* > > > >So I spent a whole subthrea

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

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:50:05PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > Please provide One Big HTML, the sectioned pages do not serve searching > accross the whole document. I have pushed a branch bug544353-ballombe to the git repository with a fix that bug. I also attach the patch. Cheers, -- Bill. Ima