Bug#591791: [PATCH] Document generic and upstart-specific init-system requirements

2012-05-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 01:08:24AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >>> It would; I just don't think invoke-rc.d is the right place for that > >>> complexity to live. For instance: if upstart is running, there's an > >>> upstart job for foo, job foo is not running, and invoke-rc.d calls > >>> /etc/in

Re: Request for policy interpretation: procedure and possible outcomes for naming conflicts

2012-05-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:12:22PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > > - When policy 10.1 refers to maintainers reporting naming conflicts to > debian-devel and trying to find consensus about which program is to > be renamed, is that consensus among the maintainers of the packages > involve

Re: Request for policy interpretation: procedure and possible outcomes for naming conflicts

2012-05-03 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:51:30AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > IMHO, /usr/bin/node is much too generic a name to be in any package. > Too generic or not, /usr/sbin/node has been in Debian since at least 1999 (13 or so years now). I'm also sure there are many other projects using similarly

Bug#671355: debian-policy: [debconf_spec] Document escape capability.

2012-05-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Hello everybody, I just figured out that Defconf's escape capability is not mentionned in the spec. Here is a small patch to correct this. Have a nice day, >From 83e3ca9d76659b81b7f3f14de315b69b57dc868c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy Dat

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Request for policy interpretation: procedure and possible outcomes for naming conflicts

2012-05-03 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 03/05/2012 11:51, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:20:47PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Bill Allombert wrote: >>> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:12:22PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Policy also states that different packages must not install commands with diff

Re: Request for policy interpretation: procedure and possible outcomes for naming conflicts

2012-05-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:20:47PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:12:22PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > >> Policy also states that different packages must not install commands > >> with different functionality with the same name. > > >