Re: Policy release planned for next weekend

2010-06-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > I'm planning to upload Policy 3.8.5 next weekend (the delay being some > time to make the necessary updates to Lintian and hopefully release both > together). Please let me know if anyone sees any problems with that > plan. I'm going to put this off one more week, mostly

Re: Bug#562945: Bug#582755: Bug#562945: fails to install

2010-06-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen writes: > On Freitag, 18. Juni 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> I think policy is unclear here: this part of policy was added per >>> #224509, while there is #506898 (which is unfortuantly merged with >>> 224509, as I read it should conflict with #506898), which says that >>> this part

Re: Bug#562945: Bug#582755: Bug#562945: fails to install

2010-06-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, please cc: me, I'm not subscribed. On Freitag, 18. Juni 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I think policy is unclear here: this part of policy was added per > > #224509, while there is #506898 (which is unfortuantly merged with > > 224509, as I read it should conflict with #506898), which says tha

Re: Bug#562945: Bug#582755: Bug#562945: fails to install

2010-06-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen writes: > Ah, thanks. You didnt quote the following sentence though: > "However, this situation should be avoided if at all possible, since it > prevents automated or unattended installs. In most cases, users will > consider this to be a bug in the package." > which is exactly my

Re: Bug#562945: Bug#582755: Bug#562945: fails to install

2010-06-18 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 562945 tech-ctte # unmerge 506898 224509 # policy-maintainers, I think you should do this ^ thanks Hi, for those coming late to the party: this bug is about a package which fails to install cleanly: Unpacking runit-run (from .../runit-run_1.1.1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /v