Bug#669915: Wording changes in the Policy about install-info and its dpkg trigger.

Hi Charles, hi all, On Mi, 27 Mär 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > we have been discussing the change below in the Debian Policy, which > simply adapts it to the use of install-info's dpkg trigger. Your > comments (on #669915) are very welcome. Thanks for the heads up, I have seen the suggest of Jo

Bug#669915: debian-policy: §12.2 recommends possibly unneeded dependency (for Wheezy)

Jonathan Nieder writes: > Is there another example of programs that are noisy about their > progress that could be used to make this concrete? > A quick web search finds bug#508086. So, maybe: > This means, amongst other things, not passing the > --verbose option to update-alternat

Bug#669915: debian-policy: §12.2 recommends possibly unneeded dependency (for Wheezy)

Charles Plessy writes: > given that packages do not need to call install-info in their maintainer > scripts anymore, I think that the Policy can be even further simplified, > like in the attached patch (inspired from section 9.7 on multimedia > handlers). > What do you (and others) think ? Look

Bug#669915: debian-policy: §12.2 recommends possibly unneeded dependency (for Wheezy)

Charles Plessy wrote: > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -1330,9 +1330,7 @@ zope. > The package installation scripts should avoid producing > output which is unnecessary for the user to see and > should rely on dpkg to stave off boredom on > - the part of a

Bug#669915: debian-policy: §12.2 recommends possibly unneeded dependency (for Wheezy)

Le Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:33:38PM +0200, Niels Thykier a écrit : > > Policy §12.2 recommends the use of "dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info" > to smoothen updates from lenny[1]. > Given that Squeeze is out and "we" generally do not support "stable" > to "stable + 2" upgrades, this recommendation i

Processed: reopening 659070 ...

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reopen 659070 Bug #659070 {Done: Charles Plessy } [developers-reference] www.debian.org: internal links point to English pages in Bug #703619 {Done: Charles Plessy } [develop

Bug#659070: marked as done (www.debian.org: internal links point to English pages in )

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Bug#703619: marked as done (www.debian.org: language-related problem with http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference pages)

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