Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Context: I have run into a few packages that used the +dfsg convention > without documenting what they removed from the tarball and I was not > able to locally update them. :( This is one of the cases that now has a better solution and more standard tools than the get-o

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2018-07-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> I'm a bit confused: wasn't it already specified pretty precisely? > > Please take a look through the bug's discussion. It's explained why the > wording was not thought to be good enough. Thanks. This looks like a classic

Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-02 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Jonathan, On Mon, Jul 02 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I'm a bit confused: wasn't it already specified pretty precisely? Please take a look through the bug's discussion. It's explained why the wording was not thought to be good enough. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP s

Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11 2018, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm pretty reluctant to specify this sort of optional target that >> works differently in every package that uses it back in Policy because >> it's really not standardized, nor do I think it's possible to >> standardize. If we

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2018-07-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#902612: Packages should not touch users' home directories

2018-07-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Gilbert writes ("Bug#902612: Packages should not touch users' home directories"): > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:56 AM, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> Packages must not contain files in /home, and packages' maintainer > >> scripts must not write to users' home directories. The programs in >