New Stack article on packaging

2017-05-02 Thread Bruce Byfield
Hi: I am researching a story comparing traditional package formats with Flatpak/Snap. Several Debian developers tell me that what makes Debian what it is is not the .deb format but the packaging policy. Anyone care to expand on that, or comment on traditional vs. universal packages? Thanks in

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-02 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:44:16PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:17:21AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro a écrit : > > > > One thing I was always curious about: is there a reason to use such a > > deep versioning scheme? > > > > A shorter version number would make package main

Re: Debian Policy and Publican

2017-05-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Russ, On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thanks to a ton of hard work by Guillem, finishing up the work that Osamu > Aoki started, debian-policy Git head is now DocBook. It's currently using > xsltproc and dblatex to generate its output (and my plan is to proceed > with that for the

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:17:21AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro a écrit : > > One thing I was always curious about: is there a reason to use such a > deep versioning scheme? > > A shorter version number would make package maintainers life a bit > easier when keeping Standards-Version: up to date. For

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-02 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 05:50:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hi folks, > > I think Debian Policy 4.0.0.0 is ready for release. One thing I was always curious about: is there a reason to use such a deep versioning scheme? A shorter version number would make package maintainers life a bit easie