Re: Bug#727708: Both T and L are wrong, plea for something simpler

2014-02-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 06:15:52PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : > > I would have to disagree with that. The recent delegation among > other things says "defines [...] technical requirements that all > packages must satisfy". What the ctte here wants to do is set > policy about having a Depends o

Bug#726998: [debian-policy] any news ? Lintian implement some check now

2014-02-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 03:25:45PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Policy could include a word of warning about hypertext documentation. I reported #738176 against lintian because I noticed Debian contributors taking incorrect actions (for eg #738101) based on the lintian tag descriptions. Bastian

Re: Bug#727708: Both T and L are wrong, plea for something simpler

2014-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > I question the whole notion of DPL delegation of policy powers to the > policy editors. The power to decide the contents of the debian-policy > package follows from their status as package maintainers; package > maintenance is not something that I believe it's in the pur

Re: Bug#727708: Both T and L are wrong, plea for something simpler

2014-02-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 06:15:52PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 05:45:19PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:13:52PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:04:12AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > "Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" writes:

Re: Bug#727708: Both T and L are wrong, plea for something simpler

2014-02-08 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 05:45:19PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:13:52PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:04:12AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > "Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" writes: > > > > > > > Back then, the gnome maintainers added a dependency o

Re: Bug#727708: Both T and L are wrong, plea for something simpler

2014-02-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:13:52PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:04:12AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > "Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" writes: > > > > > Back then, the gnome maintainers added a dependency on another package, > > > which happened to be providing an /sbin/init. Thi