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

Charles Plessy writes: > Le Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:58:37AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> Charles Plessy writes: >>> Using IDs, like this: >> >>>Version 3.9.3.0 >> >>> The HTML document will have anchors like that: >> >>> 2.1 Version 3.9.3.0 >> >>> They will be easy to preserve if t

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

Le Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:58:37AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > Using IDs, like this: > > >Version 3.9.3.0 > > > The HTML document will have anchors like that: > > > 2.1 Version 3.9.3.0 > > > They will be easy to preserve if the checklist migrates to DocB

Bug#639663: Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

Hi, CCing debian-www since we may be of little help here, but not tagging the bug as “affects www.debian.org” yet, since Russ first proposal doesn't need anything on our side. Le 25/12/2011 13:58, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: >> Having nice HTML links from the upgrade checkli

Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 01:49:05PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: But that matters for interoperability. The point of this section is to be able to issue the command: x-terminal-emulator -e vi 'some file' and know that it works. If you don't use exec, it won't. >>> I don

Bug#593533: debian-policy: Proposal to stop requesting to list initial Debian maintainers in debian/copyright

Charles Plessy writes: > in my experience with the new packages that I prepared, the FTP team is > not requesting that debian/copyright mentions the name of the Debian > maintainers who were involved in the initial packaging work. I therefore > propose to align the Policy on the current practice,

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Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

Hi Jonathan, Le 2011-12-25 03:52, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : Filipus Klutiero wrote: Le 2011-12-24 19:16, Russ Allbery a écrit : x-terminal-emulator -e vi 'some file' and know that it works. If you don't use exec, it won't. I don't see why exec would be necessary. As long as the emulato

Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

Le 2011-12-25 03:28, Russ Allbery a écrit : There's some mail client that seems to mangle messages that contain words inside angle brackets. Apparently Mozilla? It's doing weird things to the whitespace when you quote. Hum, Icedove may be doing that indeed... sorry. Filipus Klutiero writes:

Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)

Bill Allombert writes: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:10:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> --- a/policy.sgml >> +++ b/policy.sgml >> @@ -1688,11 +1688,14 @@ >> >> >>The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog >> - should be the details of the person uploading t

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Bug#651020: debian-policy: New sections education, introspection and metapackages for §2.4.

Charles Plessy writes: > here is a patch adding the new sections introduced today on debian-devel. Thanks, applied. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

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Bug#646166: § 2.2.1: clarify why "must not require" includes Recommends

David Paleino writes: > section § 2.2.1 of the Policy reads as follows: > [..] the packages in main: > - must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution >(thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or >"Build-Depends" relationship

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

Charles Plessy writes: > Le Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:13:14AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >> On Sat, 03 Sep 2011, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: >>> I though about this, but couldn't come up with any easy solution. I >>> mostly consider this tool to be useful for people who just have to >>> check

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Bug#634607: Add Affero GPL license to /usr/share/common-licenses

Mike Gabriel writes: > please add AGPL-n license files to /usr/share/common-licenses, so that > people can refer to that from within their packages. > More and more projects are changing over to AGPL, currently. As Debian > allows AGPL since 12/2008, it would be nice to have the license shipped

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

Salvatore Bonaccorso writes: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:06:31AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The first section about documentation and manual page extensions >> only applies to packages generated from the perl source package. >> Make that explicit and add a reference to the section discussing >

Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

Jonathan Nieder writes: > For what it's worth, Russ's text already seems clear to me. If relaxing > the requirement by allowing use of some mechanism other than execve to > run these commands is desirable, something like the following might do. > Support the command-line option "-e ", which

Bug#638060: debian-policy: §9.1.1: FHS should also be a "must" for generated files

Steve Langasek writes: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:33:06PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: >> Policy 9.1.1 states: "The location of all installed files and >> directories must comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) >> [...]". >> IMHO this should not only cover "installed files" (which I

Bug#626338: debian-policy: Clarification of 10.5 symlink wording

Russ Allbery writes: > The wording of section 10.5, where it says whether symlinks should be > absolute or relative, is not particularly clear if the symlink is to a > top-level file or directory rather than into one (such as a link from > /var/run to /run). The intent was to require that these

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Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:28:22AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > There's some mail client that seems to mangle messages that contain words > inside angle brackets. Apparently Mozilla? It's doing weird things to > the whitespace when you quote. > > Filipus Klutiero writes: > > > I would simply s

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

Hi On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:06:31AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > The first section about documentation and manual page extensions > only applies to packages generated from the perl source package. > Make that explicit and add a reference to the section discussing > module packages. > --- > perl

Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

Filipus Klutiero wrote: > Le 2011-12-24 19:16, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> x-terminal-emulator -e vi 'some file' >> >> and know that it works. If you don't use exec, it won't. > > I don't see why exec would be necessary. As long as the emulator supports > being given any simple command as its -

Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

There's some mail client that seems to mangle messages that contain words inside angle brackets. Apparently Mozilla? It's doing weird things to the whitespace when you quote. Filipus Klutiero writes: > I would simply suggest as a replacement: >> Support the command-line option "-e ", whi

Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

Le 2011-12-24 19:16, Russ Allbery a écrit : Filipus Klutiero writes: Regarding the formulation, your suggestion does fix the issue Hendrik identified. I would still remind that the term "command" is ambiguous (you must be referring to simple commands here). I'm not sure how else to word it.