Bug#852523: Central section commont to (old)stable and (old)stable-security regarding versioning recommendations

2017-01-24 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.18 Hi Since I failed to come up with a proper proposal for a formulation let's open a bug for it. Part of the versioning recommendation is already present in the developers-reference. On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 08:57:14AM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrot

Re: Please followup on Bug#568374

2017-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Henriksson writes: > Soon one year anniversary so I thought a reminder might be in place for > the above question. This issue has wording suggestion with multiple > seconds. > (Please note that this noise is only directed at the list and not the > actual bug report to avoid recording noi

Please followup on Bug#568374

2017-01-24 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hi, On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:19:04AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > is there still something missing for this to be included in the next > Policy update? Soon one year anniversary so I thought a reminder might be in place for the above question. This issue has wording suggestion with

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

2017-01-24 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello, Trying to bring this old issue back to life. In recent years things have changed so that it's not actually udev that creates the device nodes anymore, but the kernel (via devtmpfs). I don't think it's policys place to describe the actual implementation details (which might change and we re

Bug#852314: stable release of debian now supports /run

2017-01-24 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hi, On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:48:26PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > policy 9.1.1 nr 8 and the upgrading checklist still mention that > Packages must not assume that /run exists without a versioned > dependency on initscript "until the stable release of Debian supports > /run". [...] > I therefore su