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2012-02-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org Setting user to debian-pol...@packages.debian.org (was r...@debian.org). > limit package debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currently set to '

Bug#660249: debian-policy: [PATCH] remove a confusing & unnecessary reason for a package to be "extra"

2012-02-17 Thread Samuel Bronson
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 Severity: normal It is not really clear what is meant by packages that "are only likely to be useful if you already know what they are", and it also seems like it would put too many packages in "extra". Removing this reason for packages to be in "extra" sho

Bug#660193: developers-reference: please suggest debian/rules target name for preparing source

2012-02-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:46:15PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > > How would this relate to Policy 4.14 - debian/README.source? > [...] > The intention of this bug report is to unify the name of a target that > might be used more often soon, and it is not sufficient to reach this > goal if we rely on

Bug#660193: developers-reference: please suggest debian/rules target name for preparing source

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* Julian Gilbey [2012-02-17 12:28 +]: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > > Package: developers-reference > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Maintainers might decide to add a special make target to prepare the > > source tree for building, i.e., that make target is run

Bug#660193: developers-reference: please suggest debian/rules target name for preparing source

2012-02-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > Package: developers-reference > Severity: wishlist > > Maintainers might decide to add a special make target to prepare the > source tree for building, i.e., that make target is run by the > maintainer after a VCS checkout and possibly

Bug#660193: developers-reference: please suggest debian/rules target name for preparing source

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: developers-reference Severity: wishlist Maintainers might decide to add a special make target to prepare the source tree for building, i.e., that make target is run by the maintainer after a VCS checkout and possibly before releasing new versions. Possible reasons for this include reduci