Bug#878967: debian-policy: clarify purpose of debian/changelog

2017-10-22 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 07:22:45PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17 2017, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > > Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.1.1 Severity: normal > > > > Section 4.4 explains quite a bit about debian/changelog, but doesn't > > really explain its purpose. > > Have you seen

Bug#878967: debian-policy: clarify purpose of debian/changelog

2017-10-22 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 08:48:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Separate than the point that Policy could probably stand to say something > a little more concrete about the purpose of debian/changelog, I suspect > this came out of the recurring discussion of whether to include unreleased > versions

Bug#770440: debian-policy: policy should mention systemd timers

2017-10-22 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:30:13 +0100 Alexandre Detiste wrote: > The policy should mention how to handle systemd native timers > to avoid these kind of bugs in the future; > when other packages will start shipping native timers. > > Here is the spirit of this change: > > +To maintaint compatabilit

Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, limit package to debian-policy, tagging 850729

2017-10-22 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 spwhit...@spwhitton.name). > limit package debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currentl

Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, limit package to debian-policy, tagging 810381

2017-10-22 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 spwhit...@spwhitton.name). > limit package debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currentl

Bug#877674: [debian-policy] update links to the pdf and other formats of the documentation

2017-10-22 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 09:08:01AM +0200, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > From 044e61f437e74fad6ce7e7d19b52419402c53881 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Laura Arjona Reina > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 08:32:38 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] update the links to the other formats of the documentation > > --- > p