Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> Seconded, but I think the integrity protection is a more important
>> reason to avoid the git protocol or http, so if we can come up with a
>> further change to reflect that it would be better.
> Attacking the inte
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Seconded, but I think the integrity protection is a more important
> reason to avoid the git protocol or http, so if we can come up with a
> further change to reflect that it would be better.
Attacking the integrity of the messages in transit requires act
Jonathan Nieder writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> +++ b/policy/ch-customized-programs.rst
>> @@ -93,19 +93,21 @@ page.
> [...]
>> -It is not required for a package to depend on ``editor`` and ``pager``,
>> -nor is it required for a package to provide such virtual
>> -packages. [#]_
>> +Packages ma
Christoph Berg writes:
> Thanks for the notice. I'm quite surprised that my dnsvi seems to be the
> only package in Debian that requires a text editor. Given that our base
> doesn't really include one, and getting dependencies Just Right is among
> the things that Debian is really good at, droppi
Sean Whitton writes:
> On Wed, Aug 23 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
>> +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
>> @@ -962,6 +962,10 @@ repository where the Debian source package is developed.
>>
>> More than one different VCS may be specified for the same package
On Wed, Aug 23 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
> --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> @@ -962,6 +962,10 @@ repository where the Debian source package is developed.
>
> More than one different VCS may be specified for the same package.
>
> +For both fields, any
Hi,
Russ Allbery wrote:
> +++ b/policy/ch-customized-programs.rst
> @@ -93,19 +93,21 @@ page.
[...]
> -It is not required for a package to depend on ``editor`` and ``pager``,
> -nor is it required for a package to provide such virtual
> -packages. [#]_
> +Packages may assume that ``/usr/bin/edito
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:10:15 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> How do you plan to instruct uscan how repacking should be done ?
Adding files to be removed to Files-Excluded in d/copyright covers
about (rough guess) 95% of the cases, without any further changes
needed.
And for the remaining cases, us
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 02:37:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> roucaries bastien writes:
>
> > you call the rules with something (using shebang or directly) make -f
> > somepath/package/debian/rules, uscan need to be excuted on
> > somepath/package/.
>
> Oh, I see the edge case this is trying t
Source: debian-policy
Version: 4.1.0.0
Severity: important
User: python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: sphinx1.6
Dear maintainer,
debian-policy fails to build with Sphinx 1.6, currently available in
experimental:
sphinx-build -M latexpdf policy policy/_build
Running Sphinx v1
Re: Russ Allbery 2017-08-24 <87efs1lyc7@hope.eyrie.org>
> Oh, thank you! For some reason, apt-cache rdepends didn't show any of
> those packages. All of them except dnsvi are Suggests, which basically
> doesn't accomplish anything.
>
> Copying myon on this message as maintainer of dnsvi, whi
Re: To Russ Allbery 2017-08-24 <20170824171653.r24gyar5mikyj...@msg.df7cb.de>
> $ grep-dctrl -F Provides editor -nsPackage
> /var/lib/apt/lists/deb_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages | xargs
> deutex edbrowse emacs25 emacs25-lucid emacs25-nox fte-console
> fte-terminal fte-xwindow jed xje
Dropping Artem, whose email address no longer works.
Brendan O'Dea writes:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:03:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> In previous discussions, no one seemed to feel that it was helpful as a
>> virtual package. Virtual packages are only useful for another package
>> to de
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:03:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Would anyone on the Policy list or any of the maintainers bcc'd want to
>make a case for keeping the virtual package "editor"?
No strong objection to removing this virtual package.
>In previous discussions, no one seemed to feel that
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