Bug#595652: db packages failing to install...

2010-09-05 Thread sean finney
hi russ, On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 06:58:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > It's definitely worth talking about if the draft database policy says > something else, as it appears to. My rationale is that the package setup having re-read it yesterday i don't think that's the intention for it to say s

Bug#595652: db packages failing to install...

2010-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen writes: > please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to > install without a local db should be treated. Thanks. I agree with jcristau; I think it's reasonable to have database servers be in Recommends, to have postinst prompt for what database to use, and if

Bug#595652: db packages failing to install...

2010-09-05 Thread Ben Finney
sean finney writes: > On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:02:06PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to > > install without a local db should be treated. Thanks. > > http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/dbapp-policy.html/ch-dbapps.html#s-i

Bug#595652: db packages failing to install...

2010-09-05 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:02:06PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > package: debian-policy > x-debbugs-cc: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org > > Hi, > > please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to install > without a local db should be treated. Thanks. http://people.debian.o

Bug#595652: db packages failing to install...

2010-09-05 Thread Holger Levsen
package: debian-policy x-debbugs-cc: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org Hi, please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to install without a local db should be treated. Thanks. context: bugs such as #595594 h01ger: fwiw i still think that if an app needs to talk to a db se

Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.

2010-09-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 04 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I believe this is true of all binary relationship fields and all build > >> relationship fields as well. The dpkg-dev tools unfold all of those > >> fields when generating *.dsc