Bug#871534: debian-policy: Clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may be moderated

2017-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Lamb writes: > Hi Bill, >> How do you define "moderated" ? > I can't really, sorry. I guess getting a "Your message awaits moderator > approval" quasi-bounce… but that's not exactly right. My personal feeling is that the current vagueness is a feature rather than a bug. I think a moder

Bug#871534: debian-policy: Clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may be moderated

2017-08-08 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Bill, > How do you define "moderated" ? I can't really, sorry. I guess getting a "Your message awaits moderator approval" quasi-bounce… but that's not exactly right. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Bug#871534: debian-policy: Clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may be moderated

2017-08-08 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Bill, > How do you define "moderated" ? I can't really, sorry. I guess getting a "Your message awaits moderator approval" quasi-bounce… but that's not exactly right. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Bug#871534: debian-policy: Clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may be moderated

2017-08-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 04:58:15PM -0400, Chris Lamb wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 4.0.1.0 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > Please clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may > point to moderated mailing lists. > > Having such a list in the Maintainer field, even in t

Bug#484656: marked as done (main menu for top three desktops for debian not covered by policy)

2017-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:30:34 -0700 with message-id <8760dx3fyd@iris.silentflame.com> and subject line done has caused the Debian Bug report #484656, regarding main menu for top three desktops for debian not covered by policy to be marked as done. This means that you claim that

Bug#477990: marked as done (Remove non-conflicting requirement in optional; relax dependencies)

2017-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:29:00 -0700 with message-id <878tit3g0z@iris.silentflame.com> and subject line done has caused the Debian Bug report #477990, regarding Remove non-conflicting requirement in optional; relax dependencies to be marked as done. This means that you claim that

Bug#871534: debian-policy: Clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may be moderated

2017-08-08 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.0.1.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, Please clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may point to moderated mailing lists. Having such a list in the Maintainer field, even in the cases where they are actively and regularly monitored, appears to violate the

Processed: forcibly merging 795402 859649

2017-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > forcemerge 795402 859649 Bug #795402 [debian-policy] base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts Bug #859649 [debian-policy] debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenses Merged 795402 859649 > thanks Stopping processing here. P

Processed: retitle 823766 to Define *-browser virtual packages

2017-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 823766 Define *-browser virtual packages Bug #823766 [debian-policy] firefox: alternative for /usr/share/applications/x-www-browser.desktop Changed Bug title to 'Define *-browser virtual packages' from 'firefox: alternative for /usr/shar

Processed: forcibly merging 786470 737796

2017-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > forcemerge 786470 737796 Bug #786470 [debian-policy] debian-policy: [copyright-format] Add an optional “License-Grant” field Bug #737796 [debian-policy] copyright-format: support Files: paragraph with both abbreviated names and license paragraph

Processed: retitle 122038 to Add FHS exception for Debian's use of /var/backups, severity of 122038 is normal ...

2017-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 122038 Add FHS exception for Debian's use of /var/backups Bug #122038 [debian-policy] Use of /var/backups is apparently undocumented Changed Bug title to 'Add FHS exception for Debian's use of /var/backups' from 'Use of /var/backups is ap

Processed: forcibly merging 850157 728200

2017-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > forcemerge 850157 728200 Bug #850157 [debian-policy] Please deprecate all ad-hoc patch systems Bug #728200 [debian-policy] Clarify requirements for how to put a source package in a modifiable state Severity set to 'normal' from 'minor' Marked as

Bug#871525: debiandoc-sgml deprecated, use rst or docbookxml

2017-08-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Source: python3-defaults Version: 3.5.3-3 Severity: important As reported in https://bugs.debian.org/870820 and getting very positive feedback at DEBCONF17 after migrating Debian Policy to DocBookXML, debiandoc-sgml will be removed from the archive at buster+{0,1}. I am sending reminder to package

Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, limit package to debian-policy, tagging 732445

2017-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org Setting user to debian-pol...@packages.debian.org (was r...@debian.org). > limit package debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currently set to '

Bug#732445: debian-policy should encourage verification of upstream cryptographic signaturse

2017-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: >> diff --git a/policy.xml b/policy.xml >> index 6086901..c14d9b4 100644 >> --- a/policy.xml >> +++ b/policy.xml >> @@ -2556,11 +2556,28 @@ endif >> >> >> This is an optional, recommended configuration file for the >> -uscan utility which def

Re: Upstream Tarball Signature Files

2017-08-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 10:48:08AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: ... > On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 20:26:41 -0700, Paul Hardy wrote: > > Also, where signature files are desired, I think it would be beneficial to > > also accept binary ".sig" files as an alternative to ".asc" files, for > > example as

Re: Upstream Tarball Signature Files

2017-08-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 20:26:41 -0700, Paul Hardy wrote: > Also, where signature files are desired, I think it would be beneficial to > also accept binary ".sig" files as an alternative to ".asc" files, for > example as produced with "gpg -b". There is no need for that, you can convert from AS