Bug#678607: debian-policy: "original authors" in 12.5 is unclear

2012-06-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 07:50:41PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Here's a strawman illustrating what I think the sentence meant to say. > > diff --git i/policy.sgml w/policy.sgml > index 52dbb26a..adb0c1c4 100644 > --- i/policy.sgml > +++ w/policy.sgml > @@ -9873,8 +9873,15 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

Bug#678607: debian-policy: "original authors" in 12.5 is unclear

2012-06-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: > Policy 12.5 says: > > In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources > (if any) were obtained, and should name the original authors. > > The last part is not at all clear. Prior to a recent conversation on > debian-mentors, I had always assumed t

Bug#654958: debian-policy: Document VCS fields.

2012-06-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Charles, Charles Plessy wrote: > Would the following patch be acceptable now ? Getting a lot closer. Some questions: [...] > +++ b/policy.sgml [...] > @@ -3737,6 +3739,42 @@ Checksums-Sha256: > details. > > > + > + > + Version Control System (VCS) fields

Bug#679326: debian-policy: DMUA should covered more explicitly

2012-06-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:08:46AM +0200, Axel Beckert a écrit : > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > the policy currently doesn't explain all aspects and especially not all > > > restrictions of the DM-Upload-Allowed field usage. > > > > Not that the implementation WILL change. And I see no reason to exp

Bug#654958: debian-policy: Document VCS fields.

2012-06-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:32:26PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > * Bernhard R. Link [120108 14:03]: > > * Russ Allbery [120107 20:42]: > > > "Bernhard R. Link" writes: > > > > Something that was only added to git after that discussion was already > > > > running for a while is git-clone's

Bug#679326: debian-policy: DMUA should covered more explicitly

2012-06-27 Thread Axel Beckert
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > the policy currently doesn't explain all aspects and especially not all > > restrictions of the DM-Upload-Allowed field usage. > > Not that the implementation WILL change. And I see no reason to explain > the implementation inside policy. Well, ok, but at least the intent

Bug#679326: debian-policy: DMUA should covered more explicitly

2012-06-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12890 March 1977, Axel Beckert wrote: > the policy currently doesn't explain all aspects and especially not all > restrictions of the DM-Upload-Allowed field usage. Not that the implementation WILL change. And I see no reason to explain the implementation inside policy. -- bye, Joerg Some AM

Bug#679326: debian-policy: DMUA should covered more explicitly

2012-06-27 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.3.0 Severity: minor Hi, the policy currently doesn't explain all aspects and especially not all restrictions of the DM-Upload-Allowed field usage. This means that someone who can not follow the link to the GR (i.e. because reading an offline version of the pol