Bug#588497: New virtual package: httpd-wsgi

2010-07-08 Thread Stefan Ott
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.0.0 Severity: wishlist Hi there, I would like to suggest a new virtual package, "httpd-wsgi". I'm currently in the process of packaging a Pylons-based web-application that uses wsgi and instead of manually keeping / updating a list of all possible implementatio

Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, limit package to debian-policy, usertagging 509933 ...

2010-07-08 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). > limit package debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currently set to '

Bug#509933: versioning SONAMEs of shared libraries is not clearly recommended

2010-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > I read through the shared library sections of Policy a few times last > night and can't find anywhere where Policy unambiguously recommends > always including a version in SONAME for public libraries. If you don't > have a version, you can't represent the library in the sh

Bug#445203: debian-policy: 10.8. Log files: /etc/logrotate.d/ preferred

2010-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 08:59:24 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> +postrotate >> +[ -f /var/run/foo.pid ] && kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/foo.pid` >> +endscript > Probably better to recommend using start-stop-daemon, as it's more > robust and should properly handl

Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list

2010-07-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > > Yeah, there's that too. We're probably best off just saying that every > > package needs a maintainer. Hopefully it's clear enough since we're > > saying that the package needs one, not just the software. > > Here's a patch

Bug#445203: debian-policy: 10.8. Log files: /etc/logrotate.d/ preferred

2010-07-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 08:59:24 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I propose the following patch for this bug instead in order to get it > clear of this discussion. We can always go back and sort out whether it > should use invoke-rc.d after we work through the other bug. > > Does this look okay? >

Re: Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list

2010-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:01:52AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Russ Allbery writes: > > > Yeah, there's that too. We're probably best off just saying that every > > package needs a maintainer. Hopefully it's clear enough since we're > > saying that the package needs one, not just the softwa