Non-normative addition of a missing preposition in Policy's §5.1.

2011-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, there is a missing ‘of’ preposition in §5.1 and here is a patch that adds it. I think that it is trivial enough and non-normative so that it may not be necessary to open a bug. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan --- policy.sgml |2 +- 1 files c

Bug#640263: debian-policy: Clarify policy section 9.9 - Environment variables

2011-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 01:08:42PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > > Per resolution of bug #639997 I would like to ask for clarification of > > section 9.9 in the polcy regarding environmental variables, and if it > > implicitly excludes "global" environmental variables li

Bug#640263: debian-policy: Clarify policy section 9.9 - Environment variables

2011-09-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > See /usr/bin/iceweasel for an example Scratch that --- iceweasel can be run directly nowadays as "/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin". I should have said "see pre-2010 mozilla for an example involving LD_LIBRARY_PATH". https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552864 Ha

Bug#640263: debian-policy: Clarify policy section 9.9 - Environment variables

2011-09-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Carl, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > Per resolution of bug #639997 I would like to ask for clarification of > section 9.9 in the polcy regarding environmental variables, and if it > implicitly excludes "global" environmental variables like PATH, or if > all programs must include themself a sensible

Bug#640263: debian-policy: Clarify policy section 9.9 - Environment variables

2011-09-03 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 Severity: normal Per resolution of bug #639997 I would like to ask for clarification of section 9.9 in the polcy regarding environmental variables, and if it implicitly excludes "global" environmental variables like PATH, or if all programs must include them

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-09-03 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Hi. On 03/09/2011 14:40, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello Giovanni, > > upgrading-checklist really points to sections of a specific version of policy > and not the current one, except for the first entries. How do you plan to > handle that ? When policy is restuctured, links will get wrong. I thou

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-09-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:45:52AM +0200, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > Hi. > > It would be useful to have a copy of the HTML version of > upgrading-checklist somewhere on the web. This could, for example, be > linked from the PTS when some package's