Bug#106073: Directories named after packages

2011-01-06 Thread Miles Bader
Russ Allbery writes: > I'm hesitant to recommend moving the documentation to /usr/share/doc/foo > when we've always put it in a directory named after the package in the > past; I'm afraid long-time Debian users won't be able to find it. I'd certainly be confused! Being able to just look in /usr/

Bug#609162: debian-policy: package names with dots/periods ('.') and crontab files: packagers beware

2011-01-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor The debian policy section 9.5 [1] suggests using the package name as a file name when creating files in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily etc. This works well *unless* the package name includes a dot ('.'), as this forces the file name to inclu

Bug#609160: debian-policy: include DEP5

2011-01-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: debian-policy Version: n/a Attached please find a patch that adds a copy of DEP5 to the debian-policy package. I have attempted to add it to the Makefile and debian/rules file, but not sure if I did it in a good way. The actual spec text is identical to the one on the DEP site (http://de

Bug#106073: Directories named after packages

2011-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Directories named after packages"): >> See http://bugs.debian.org/106073 and the discussion there. Wording >> proposals very welcome. > OMG it's from 2001 ... Yeah, it's almost old enough that I can blame you for the fact that it wasn't specified

Processed: Re: Bug#608324: please add Affero license to /usr/share/common-licenses

2011-01-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 608324 debian-policy Bug #608324 [base-files] please add Affero license to /usr/share/common-licenses Bug reassigned from package 'base-files' to 'debian-policy'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions base-files/6.0. > thanks Stopping

Re: Bug#608324: please add Affero license to /usr/share/common-licenses

2011-01-06 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 608324 debian-policy thanks On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 6.0 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > I have seen you did recently an update of the licenses from > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/Licenses/ but you did not include the Affero > license http://