Bug#643690: perl policy unclear about the section for manpages

2011-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 The perl policy makes confusing statements about the section that manpages should be installed in: 2.4. Documentation -- Manual pages distributed with Perl packages must be installed into the standard directories: [...]

Bug#172436: BROWSER and sensible-browser standardization

2011-09-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 1. For desktop apps, recommend unconditional use of xdg-open. > > 2. For everyone else: [...] > c. For non-desktop apps lacking support for the BROWSER variable, >recommend unconditional use of xdg-open (for the same reason). Gah, for "xdg-open" in 2c, plea

Bug#172436: BROWSER and sensible-browser standardization

2011-09-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Russ, This question came up recently on the git mailing list in the context of "git web--browse" (a backend used by git instaweb and some other commands). It would have been nice to have clear advice in Debian policy to guide what we should do. >From the point of view of improving upstream pr