Bug#452393: [PROPOSAL] clarify overstep between "required" and "important" priorities

2012-07-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > It still sounds like work, so let's abandon that part of the proposal. > Maybe we can prepare for it with the following, though? > @@ -757,16 +757,11 @@ > > required > > - Packages which are necessary for the proper > -

Bug#452393: [PROPOSAL] clarify overstep between "required" and "important" priorities

2012-07-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:20:19PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : >> Charles Plessy wrote: >>> deprecating >>> either the required or important priority would not render packages buggy >>> just >>> for that

Bug#452393: [PROPOSAL] clarify overstep between "required" and "important" priorities

2012-07-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:20:19PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Given that the Priority field in the debian source control file is used only > > once, when the package is first uploaded to the Debian archive, deprecating > > either the required or important priori

Bug#452393: [PROPOSAL] clarify overstep between "required" and "important" priorities

2012-07-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: > Given that the Priority field in the debian source control file is used only > once, when the package is first uploaded to the Debian archive, deprecating > either the required or important priority would not render packages buggy just > for that fact. Are you referring to

Bug#452393: [PROPOSAL] clarify overstep between "required" and "important" priorities

2012-07-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 07:52:05PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > > In practice, my impression is that "required" usually just means > pseudo-essential (that is, essential packages and their transitive > dependencies). Is that impression correct? Would it be worth > documenting? > > A part

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

2012-07-10 Thread Wen-Yen Chuang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1,SHA512 On 07/09/12 09:41, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > The proposal is to amend that second bullet point: > > |* Support the command-line option "-e ...", > which | creates a new terminal window and runs the specified > command. | The argum

Bug#680174: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-07-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:40:40AM +0200, Guus Sliepen a écrit : > > Attached is a patch against the developers-reference source. It can > probably be improved, any comments are welcome. Dear Guus, thank you for your patch. Here are a few comments. > diff --git a/beyond-pkging.dbk b/beyond-pkg