Hi,
Russ Allbery writes:
> Ansgar Burchardt writes:
>> I discussed this a bit on IRC with the other ftp-masters and we came to
>> this summary:
[...]
>> 2) We wonder if the 'standard' priority can also be dropped: as far as
>>we know, it is used only by the "standard" task and it might make
>
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 02:08:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> It's been a while since the last update to this thread and proposed
> wording about the special version numbering conventions in use in Debian,
> and in the meantime things have settled out a bit more and we have a
> pretty firm consen
Andreas Henriksson writes:
> Can't help but wonder why not just remove the "extra" (and mentioning it
> as deprecated in upgrade notes) rather than explicitly documenting it as
> deprecated. I guess keeping it around is useful to avoid people
> mass-bug-filing RC-bugs for all current extra packag
On 14717 March 1977, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Can't help but wonder why not just remove the "extra" (and mentioning it
> as deprecated in upgrade notes) rather than explicitly documenting it as
> deprecated. I guess keeping it around is useful to avoid people
> mass-bug-filing RC-bugs for all cu
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:38:33 -0700
Russ Allbery wrote:
> 1. We've always had reasonably good PDF output, and I want to maintain
>that. I'm not sure how good Sphinx's pipeline is for that, and as
>noted in the slides that would need to be tested. (ePub might be
>better than PDF at thi
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:13:31 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> I also think a really good upgrade notice for this is needed. Should be
> very clearly mentioned people adjusting their packages should not forget
> to also file a bug against ftp.debian.org to align the overrides.
My guess is that
Hi Russ,
Your suggestion looks good to me so just in case it's useful:
Seconded.
Can't help but wonder why not just remove the "extra" (and mentioning it
as deprecated in upgrade notes) rather than explicitly documenting it as
deprecated. I guess keeping it around is useful to avoid people
mass
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:54:00 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ansgar Burchardt writes:
>
> > I discussed this a bit on IRC with the other ftp-masters and we came to
> > this summary:
>
> > 0) We would like to drop the requirement for packages to not depend on
> >packages of lower priority: it is
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