Re: Changes in the maintenance of the Developers Reference

2009-09-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Bill Allombert wrote: > debian-de...@l.d.o could be a better channel for the developers-reference > discussions, though with the downside of yet more outside traffic than > debian-policy. Not really - d-devel is a way too messy list for a useful discussion. Not sure if there is a better list to

Re: Changes in the maintenance of the Developers Reference

2009-09-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 21/09/09 at 18:44 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:56:37AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Following a discussion on debian-de...@l.d.o[1], the way the Developers > > Reference[2] is maintained has been changed, with the aim to make it > > more public and easier fo

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2009-09-21 Thread Russ Allbery
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > ok. fair enough. > BUT: the original proposal and this proposal contain only the duet: > + A package may specify an architecture wildcard. Architecture > + wildcards are in the format os-any and > + any-cpu. Internally, the package > T

Re: Changes in the maintenance of the Developers Reference

2009-09-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:56:37AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > Following a discussion on debian-de...@l.d.o[1], the way the Developers > Reference[2] is maintained has been changed, with the aim to make it > more public and easier for people to contribute. > > Changes to developers-ref

Re: Changes in the maintenance of the Developers Reference

2009-09-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:56:37AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Following a discussion on debian-de...@l.d.o[1], the way the Developers > Reference[2] is maintained has been changed, with the aim to make it > more public and easier for people to contribute. ... > Finally, we could use the he

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-09-21 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, The most recent version of this proposal was: --8<---cut here---start->8--- --- virtual-package-names-list.txt~ 2009-03-15 18:19:17.0 + +++ virtual-package-names-list.txt 2009-03-15 18:20:00.0 +

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2009-09-21 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: Do we really need to use the triplets? Do you see some possible cases where we must really specify the first part? Isn't someone working on a klibc port? That would require using the triplet. Does the new dpkg support also the triplets?

Re: devref editor

2009-09-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > I would volunteer to become a devref editor. I am already subscribed > to debian-policy. I suggest you also subscribe to the PTS with cvs keyword to also receive the SVN commit notices. We also have a channel #debian-dev-ref with CIA but it's of not mu

Bug#458385: New version of Artistic License

2009-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach gregor herrmann [2009.08.29.1423 +0200]: > As a first approach I've grepped thruugh the lintian lab: > > gre...@bellini:/org/lintian.debian.org/laboratory/source$ egrep "(Artistic > License (Version )*2|Artistic-2)" */debfiles/copyright | cut -f1 -d/ | uniq | > wc -l > 19 > > I mig

devref editor

2009-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
I would volunteer to become a devref editor. I am already subscribed to debian-policy. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when y