Bug#687900: document multiarch

2012-09-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: > I'd rather not do this piecemeal Fair enough. Thanks for filing the bug, by the way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

Bug#685039: developers-reference: please document what is needed to reintroduce a package

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 09:16:32AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 08:51 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > Done in the attached patch, thanks. > > I didn't see the comments from Charles Plessy as I wasn't subscribed to > the bug and he did not CC me. I've attached a new version ado

Bug#685039: developers-reference: please document what is needed to reintroduce a package

2012-09-16 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 16/09/2012 21:16, Paul Wise a écrit : > > -Moving, removing, renaming, adopting, and orphaning packages > +Moving, removing, reintroducing, renaming, adopting, and orphaning > packages > I guess “reintroducing” should be the last item o

Bug#685039: developers-reference: please document what is needed to reintroduce a package

2012-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 08:51 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Done in the attached patch, thanks. I didn't see the comments from Charles Plessy as I wasn't subscribed to the bug and he did not CC me. I've attached a new version adopting his suggestions. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise Ind

Bug#685039: developers-reference: please document what is needed to reintroduce a package

2012-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 13:28 +, Bart Martens wrote: > I'm looking at this now. I agree with most of your patch. I'm having doubts > on this paragraph : ... > I suggest to replace the paragraph quoted above by these two paragraphs : Done in the attached patch, thanks. Based on feedback from

Bug#687900: document multiarch

2012-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > To be precise, am I correct in assuming this means documenting the > following? > * the Multi-Arch field (meaning of values "same", "foreign", >"allowed") > * how the Architecture field affects dependencies > * installation, configuration, upgrade, and removal pr

Bug#687900: document multiarch

2012-09-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: > There are various bugs already filed about some edge cases and > specific issues with multiarch, but none to track the general > documentation of multiarch handling in Policy. This bug will be > used to discuss the overall wording. To be precise, am I correct in assuming th

Bug#685039: developers-reference: please document what is needed to reintroduce a package

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 08:38:51PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > Apparently I need an ack on my patch to devref about the procedures > needed when re-introducing packages. I would appreciate it if someone > from the debian-qa list (CCed) could take a look at the patch and > suggest if the patch n

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

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 01:34:25PM -0400, David Prévot a écrit : > > That would be > > debconf-escape 1 Thanks, it works. I attached the updated patch. If one more person seconds it, perhpas Russ can apply it for the next revision of the Policy ? It is not particularly important, but would

Bug#687900: document multiarch

2012-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal There are various bugs already filed about some edge cases and specific issues with multiarch, but none to track the general documentation of multiarch handling in Policy. This bug will be used to discuss the overall wording. It's possible some of the exis

Policy 3.9.4.0 upload target of 2012-09-18

2012-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Well, clearly my plan to do this a couple of weeks ago didn't actually work, so new plan. I'm planning on uploading Policy 3.9.4 Tuesday evening (2012-09-18). My hope is to then start working on documenting multiarch. Sorry about the delay. For Lintian folks, here's the upgrading checklist for

Processed: Re: Bug#687844: debian-policy: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed:

2012-09-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 policykit-1 Bug #687844 [debian-policy] debian-policy: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Bug reassigned from package 'debian-policy' to 'policykit-1'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #687844 to the same values previous

Bug#687844: debian-policy: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed:

2012-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Control: reassign -1 policykit-1 Piotr writes: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: normal > Dear Maintainer, > I have Wheezy with LXDE and all updates are done, but after startup I > get this Error: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent > already exi

Bug#687844: debian-policy: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed:

2012-09-16 Thread Piotr
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have Wheezy with LXDE and all updates are done, but after startup I get this Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject kind regards Piotr -- System Infor

Bug#685039: developers-reference: please document what is needed to reintroduce a package

2012-09-16 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 08:38:51PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > My patch does not seem to have been committed to the SVN repository, > > could someone do that please? > > Apparently I need an ack on my patch to devref about the procedures > n

Bug#685039: developers-reference: please document what is needed to reintroduce a package

2012-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > My patch does not seem to have been committed to the SVN repository, > could someone do that please? Apparently I need an ack on my patch to devref about the procedures needed when re-introducing packages. I would appreciate it if someone from

Bug#685039: developers-reference: please document what is needed to reintroduce a package

2012-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 11:43 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I changed the sentence to make it clear that this is only triggered by > removals from unstable. Updated patch attached. My patch does not seem to have been committed to the SVN repository, could someone do that please? -- bye, pabs http://