Bug#640737: [copyright-format] misc. changes from driver.

2011-09-26 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 26/09/2011 12:05, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Bill Allombert writes: >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:31:47AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >>> I think that we need to resolve #640737 first. The most frequently >>> proposed URL, >>> ‘http://www

Bug#640737: [copyright-format] misc. changes from driver.

2011-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
David Prévot writes: > I don't now what is the supposed name of the DEP5 document inside the > debian-policy package, but it would be highly appreciated if the “1.0” > part could be easily parsable from the document name, at worse from the > document itself (in a reliable way). We should be able

Bug#642914: debian-policy: 10.8 Log files : logrotate compression should result from good judgment

2011-09-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:26:12PM +0200, Jérôme Bouat wrote: > > I first filed a bug into rsyslog package and someone advised me to report > this question to the Debian policy team : that is the reason of this current > bug report. I don't want to enforce a point of view but just trigger a > tech

Bug#642914: debian-policy: 10.8 Log files : logrotate compression should result from good judgment

2011-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Jérôme Bouat writes: >> rotated log files be compressed; there certainly isn't in 10.8. There >> is an example of a logrotate configuration file that happens to >> compress the log files, but that's an example, not a normative >> requirement. > It seems that many package maintainer understand t

Bug#642914: debian-policy: 10.8 Log files : logrotate compression should result from good judgment

2011-09-26 Thread Jérôme Bouat
available). When it does make a difference is when some process goes insane and logs tons of similar lines, at which point the compression allows one to retain such logs without much impact, which I think is valuable. Maybe the logging facility should filter the duplicate message with something

Bug#642914: debian-policy: 10.8 Log files : logrotate compression should result from good judgment

2011-09-26 Thread Jérôme Bouat
Hello Raphael, you have been filing such bugs in Ubuntu and I closed at least one you filed against dpkg. Ubuntu isn't exactly the same than Debian. Otherwise it would be called Debian ;) I hope that if this debian-policy request gets turned off, you will stop filing such wishlist bugs ev

Bug#640737: [copyright-format] misc. changes from driver.

2011-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:31:47AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> I think that we need to resolve #640737 first. The most frequently >> proposed URL, >> ‘http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/’ >> (with the slash at the end) looks safe, but I

Bug#640737: [copyright-format] misc. changes from driver.

2011-09-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:31:47AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:08:14AM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > > > I have commited this change. > > > > * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix > > Wording: Lars Wirzenius > > Second