On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.txt b/virtual-package-names-list.txt
> index 9ba66e5..2308d39 100644
> --- a/virtual-package-names-list.txt
> +++ b/virtual-package-names-list.txt
> @@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ News and Mail
> imap-server an IM
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Objections or seconds?
Looks mostly good except:
> @@ -8014,6 +7998,34 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
> and which manages the shared configuration files. (The
> sgml-base package is a good example.)
>
> +
If you're cc'd on this message, you're one of the people who volunteered
to write language for Policy bugs.
I've finished categorizing all the open bugs against debian-policy, and I
believe that the tags now correctly reflect the status of the bug, or are
at least close. That means that all the b
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Bug #587279 [debian-policy] Clarify restrictions on main to non-free
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Owner recorded as Russ Allbery .
> owner 504880 !
Bug #504880 [debian-policy] Disambiguate "installed" for packages
Owner recorded as Russ Allbery .
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Andrew McMillan writes:
> I would say that as the person sponsoring and signing the upload you are
> the person who is responsible for it, and the changelog should show your
> name.
> Perhaps the person who did the bulk of the work before you reviewed the
> package and uploaded it should put the
Don Armstrong writes:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> One person I'm sponsoring misread this and put my name in the
>> changelog, since I'm the one actually doing the upload. I can't
>> think of a better wording, though. Perhaps a footnote is enough?
> The maintainer name an
Jonathan Nieder writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Steve Langasek writes:
>>> I might also add at the end:
>>> In such situations, the depended-on package should perform an
>>> equivalent clean-up operation if it's the first package to be
>>> removed or purged.
>>> But that may not be unam
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Raphael Hertzog writes:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> What happens if you have a package on the system that's removed but not
>> purged and you install another package (conflicting with the first)
>> that contains the same conffile? I suspect the conffile will be
>> treated as lo
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes:
> Note: I was replying to your "out of curiosity".
> To answer the original question:
> I agree to make "mailx" a virtual package.
> And I agree to specify that the mailx provides the
> POSIX interfaces of mailx
Here's an updated patch.
diff --git a/virtual-packa
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes:
> Maybe I misunderstand, but dh-make put explicitly at the bottom of
> debian/copyright:
> : The Debian packaging is (C) #YEAR#, #USERNAME# <#EMAIL#> and
> : is licensed under the GPL, see above.
> See /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/licenses/*
> I meant about the s
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:37:54AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Copyright notices are strictly optional in countries that are signatories
> to Berne. If the copyright holder doesn't put one on, we're under no
> obligation to invent one.
We're under no *legal* obligation to invent one, true, but h
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