Bug#707851: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Bill Allombert wrote: > Debian menu is supported by much more window managers than the XDG menu draft. This issue is addressed by the xdg-menu system from Arch Linux. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-menu For the awesome window manager there is also a s

Bug#736381: developers-reference: add Steam subscriptions to the list of goodies offered to Debian Developers

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
Please remember to CC bug submitters when relevant since they are usually not subscribed and I am definitely not. I can see both sides of this but I don't really mind which patch gets into devref, so, please choose a patch, add "Debian Maintainers" to it (since they were added after the announceme

Processed: tagging 581603

2014-02-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 581603 + patch Bug #581603 [developers-reference] developers-reference: please mention that DMs can now get HP-sponsored LWN subscriptions Added tag(s) patch. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. --

Bug#707851: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-02-25 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Tuesday 25 February 2014 23:40:14 Bill Allombert wrote: [snip] > I do not believe Debian should favor desktop environment over lightweight > window managers, especially since Debian users are more likely than other > to favor use lightweight environments. If you are going to do that statement,

Bug#737730: debian-policy: Minor rewrite for CGI program paths in "11.5 Web servers and applications"

2014-02-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:32:32AM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: > Hi. > > >> 1. Cgi-bin executable files are installed in the directory > >> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ or a subdirectory of that directory, so that, typically > >> > >> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name > >> > >> should be referr

Processed: Re: Processed: tagging 707851

2014-02-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 707851 - pending Bug #707851 [debian-policy] debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files Removed tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 707851: http://bugs.debian.org/c

Bug#707851: Processed: tagging 707851

2014-02-25 Thread Bill Allombert
tags 707851 - pending thanks After reviewing the buglog, I found there are a number of objection raised by various developers that have not been addressed. This is a list of MSGID which have not received proper consideration: <20130512130335.ga4...@client.brlink.eu> <20130512100730.GA10956@yell

Processed: limit source to debian-policy, tagging 740100

2014-02-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > #debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low > # > # * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from > #the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk. > # > limit source debian-policy Limiting to bugs with

Bug#707851: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-02-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 02:33:20PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Furthermore, I think the idea of an application "belonging" to one system or > the other is misplaced. The purpose of both the original menu system and > the freedesktop standard is to give users consistent, menu-driven access to >

Bug#740100: upgrading-checklist: truncated sentence: “details in”

2014-02-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 07:06:43PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: minor > > upgrading-checklist for version 3.5.4.0, §11.6 reads: > > “Any packages accessing the mail spool should access it via > /var/mail and include a suitable Depends field; details in” > > Curio

Bug#740100: upgrading-checklist: truncated sentence: “details in”

2014-02-25 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor upgrading-checklist for version 3.5.4.0, §11.6 reads: “Any packages accessing the mail spool should access it via /var/mail and include a suitable Depends field; details in” Curiously enough, there's identical truncated sentence for version 3.2.0.0, §10