Bug#874095: copyright-format: Use the “synopsis” term established in the definition

2017-09-02 Thread Ben Finney
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.0.0 Severity: minor Tags: patch The term “synopsis” is established in the definition of “Formatted Text”. This attached patch uses that term more consistently in the document. -- \“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. | `\

Bug#786470: debian-policy: [copyright-format] Add an optional “License-Grant” field

2017-09-02 Thread Ben Finney
On 20-Aug-2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > - please strip the rewordings that you've made to other parts of the > document, so this patch addresses this bug alone. > > If you want to make those changes, please file separate 'informative' > bugs against debian-policy; these do not need to be secon

Bug#874090: debian-policy: Clarify wording of some passages

2017-09-02 Thread Ben Finney
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.0.0 Severity: minor Tags: patch Howdy all, I have made some minor clarifying changes while working on another bug report. These changes do not have any substantive effect on the intended meaning of the passages, only to clarity of expression. The output of ‘g

Bug#749826: Documenting `Multi-Arch: foreign`

2017-09-02 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 02 Sep 2017 at 08:44:14 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20 2017, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > A common theme with such cases is to resort to `Multi-Arch: allowed` > > (e.g. make), but that has the downside of requiring most consumers to > > attach the :any annotation and that it can ne

Bug#749826: Documenting `Multi-Arch: foreign`

2017-09-02 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Helmut, On Sun, Aug 20 2017, Helmut Grohne wrote: >> - I couldn't figure out how to include this text, because I didn't >> understand it: >> >> For instance, using dpkg --print-architecture can be used to emit the >> native architecture even though dpkg is marked Multi-Arch: >>

Re: [policy] 01/03: correct description of Testsuite:

2017-09-02 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Mattia, On Tue, Aug 29 2017, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Not "binary"... It's added to the .dsc, therefore is the *source* control > file! Now fixed. Thanks again. > Besides, I'm confused as to whether this "source package control file" > refers to the .dsc or debian/control (it's probably e