Bug#698030: debian-policy: document micro binary packages (udebs).

2013-01-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Le Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:27:37PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > We already talk about udeb in various places (shlibs, for instance). This > isn't a new problem. Hi Russ and everybody, actually the only section of the Policy that currently contains

Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:29:13 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > here is a new version trying to addres Simon's and Guillem's comments. > @@ -2671,6 +2671,7 @@ Package: libc6 > Description > (mandatory) > Homepage > Built-Using > +id="f-Package-Type">P

Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> In response to the other follow-up, I don't think this is the right >> place (or bug) to discuss udeb package behavior or what portions of >> Policy they comply with. > Surely it is relevant to people reading policy that it does not comply > with

Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: > In response to the other follow-up, I don't think this is the right place > (or bug) to discuss udeb package behavior or what portions of Policy they > comply with. Surely it is relevant to people reading policy that it does not comply with them all (or in other words that t

Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > here is a new version trying to addres Simon's and Guillem's comments. Seconded. In response to the other follow-up, I don't think this is the right place (or bug) to discuss udeb package behavior or what portions of Policy they comply with. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debi

Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

2013-01-12 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, On 8 July 2012 19:22, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > In July, 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> As demonstrated by the following trivia[1], and also mentioned by SUSv3, the >> echo built-in varies from implementation to implementation and thus should be >> discouraged. [...] >> Shells tested: 8 >> S

Bug#698012: debian-policy: Please update 10.6 "Device files" for udev and the like

2013-01-12 Thread Christoph Biedl
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Hi, recently I stumbled over the following paragraph in 10.6: If a package needs any special device files that are not included in the base system, it must call MAKEDEV in the postinst script, after notifying the user. and I think it needs an