Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers

2012-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > To me, this feels like a specific instance of the general problem of > excessive maintainer script prompting. Oh, I see why you didn't class it that way: this isn't something done by the maintainer scripts, but rather something done by the package itself. Sorry, I had some

Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers

2012-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Josh Triplett writes: > I don't intend this as a slippery slope; I very specifically want to > cover the types of annoyances mentioned in the above paragraph, which > almost no software in Debian actually includes. See the transmission > bug I linked to in the original bug submission. > If you

Re: [IANA #616232] Registration of text/vnd.debian.copyright: a media type for machine-readable copyright files.

2012-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: >> The syntax of the revision number needs to be specified: digits, >> digits.digits, digits.digits-digits, whatever. > > Given that the current revision number is 1.0, and that I do not > think that we aim at updating the format frequently, I propose > the following: >

Re: [IANA #616232] Registration of text/vnd.debian.copyright: a media type for machine-readable copyright files.

2012-10-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, The IESG-designated expert has reviewed our application and returned the inline comments below. I added my own comments below theirs. > > Optional parameters: > > revision - the revision number of the specification. > > The syntax of the revision number needs to be specified: digits,

Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers

2012-10-17 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:08:18AM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On Sunday 14 October 2012 23:50:21 Josh Triplett wrote: > > = > > Software in Debian should not prompt users to explicitly agree to > > licenses, disclaimers, or terms of service in order to run that > > software. This includes pr

Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers

2012-10-17 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Sunday 14 October 2012 23:50:21 Josh Triplett wrote: > = > Software in Debian should not prompt users to explicitly agree to > licenses, disclaimers, or terms of service in order to run that > software. This includes prompts to agree to Free Sofware licenses > (since such licenses do not re

Processed (with 1 errors): Re: dev-ref as .epub or .mobi

2012-10-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 683643 pending Bug #683643 [developers-reference] dev-ref as .epub or .mobi Added tag(s) pending. > merge 683643 652044 Bug #683643 [developers-reference] dev-ref as .epub or .mobi Unable to merge bugs because: package of #652044 is 'src:deve

Bug#690750: developers-reference: no link to English manual

2012-10-17 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.9 Severity: minor tags: l10n Control: user debian-de...@debian.or.jp Control: usertags -1 debianjp Hi, Now it's index.html says "This page is also available in French, German and Japanese." and link to each language. However, this line is same in each