Bug#767839: Bug#766711 closed by Niels Thykier (Re: debhelper: Dependency added by dh_installdocs --link-doc breaks binary-only NMUs)

2015-01-08 Thread Robert Luberda
reopen 766711 block 766711 by 767839 thanks > > I have taken the liberty of marking the bug as wontfix (read: "cantfix") > and closing it. I'm re-opening it, as neither the bug has not been fixed, nor the Policy has been changed to explicitly disallow linking arch:any to arch:all (see #767839).

Processed: Re: Bug#766711 closed by Niels Thykier (Re: debhelper: Dependency added by dh_installdocs --link-doc breaks binary-only NMUs)

2015-01-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reopen 766711 Bug #766711 {Done: Niels Thykier } [debhelper] debhelper: Dependency added by dh_installdocs --link-doc breaks binary-only NMUs Bug reopened Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #766711 to the same values previously set

Re: Package uotdated

2015-01-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:06:47PM -0400, Jetro Costa wrote: > The package debian-policy is utdated according to > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/policy.pdf > , this is updated in the 2014 year, and the package still in year 2012. The package in jessie and sid is from 2014, the package i

Package uotdated

2015-01-08 Thread Jetro Costa
The package debian-policy is utdated according to https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/policy.pdf , this is updated in the 2014 year, and the package still in year 2012. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: preinst: get new pkg version to check for downgrade

2015-01-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! The context is that Andrey wanted to get, in a maintscript, the new version of the package during upgrade, to be able to abort on downgrades, w/o needing to use a template maintscript to replace the current version at build-time, which is inconvenient. On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 17:55:36 +0200, An

Re: Bug#650077: dpkg: The Installed-Size estimate can be wrong by a factor of 8 or a difference of 100MB

2015-01-08 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, > > | awk '{total = total + int($1/4096) + 4096}END{print total}' > I don't understand this line. Counting file blocks works like this: > > | awk '{total = total + int(($1+4095)/4096)}END{print total}' except that we don't know what the destination block size is, so I wouldn't bothe

Bug#774846: developers-reference: please document how to upload to stable/stable-proposed-updates

2015-01-08 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.12 Severity: wishlist Hi, as part of my NM process I was asked how to upload to stable/stable-proposed-updates. I noticed that the dev ref does not say explicitly how to do such uploads and whether or not there is a difference between functionality bug f

Bug#774843: developers-reference: unified section collecting all conventions about version number formats

2015-01-08 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.12 Severity: wishlist Hi, I think the developers reference could use a unified section of all conventions around Debian versions. I will split this email into three subsections which I think make sense for the new section I propose. I was also told in

Bug#774837: developers-reference: avoid using gender binary in advice to be gender neutral

2015-01-08 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.12 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, section 6.5.2.6. is titled "be gender neutral" and also explicitly advises to "use gender-neutral constructions in your writing" but in the same line says "The world is made of men and women". This is not being gender