Bug#913295: debian-policy: Update location of example init.d script

2018-11-11 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2018-11-10 17:02] Sean Whitton > Hello Dmitry, > > On Fri 09 Nov 2018 at 08:17AM GMT, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > Examples on which you can base your systemd integration on is available in > > the man page systemd.unit(8). An example on which you can base your > > -``/etc/init.d`` scripts i

Bug#845715: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree

2018-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 11:25:58AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > === Addressing the participants in this thread more generally, > especially those who seconded my most recent patch: === > > Bill has raised several scenarios in which this new requirement could be > interpreted as making

Bug#845715: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree

2018-11-11 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, === Addressing the participants in this thread more generally, especially those who seconded my most recent patch: === Bill has raised several scenarios in which this new requirement could be interpreted as making a package RC-buggy, where that might be considered unreasonable. Building i

Bug#845715: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree

2018-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 07:42:15AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Bill, > > On Sun 11 Nov 2018 at 11:41AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I am not sure I see the difference. Do you imply something like > > > > but files created in that directory SHOULD be deleted before the > > t

Bug#845715: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree

2018-11-11 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Bill, On Sun 11 Nov 2018 at 11:41AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > I am not sure I see the difference. Do you imply something like > > but files created in that directory SHOULD be deleted before the > targets completes and MUST not be reused by subsequent executions of > the

Bug#824495: debian-policy: Source packages "can" declare relationships

2018-11-11 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 11 Nov 2018 at 11:31AM GMT, Simon McVittie wrote: > I think the best practice is for maintainers to notice new features being > added, make a deliberate decision on what to enable (in an architecture- > or kernel-specific way if appropriate), and use the equivalent of > --disable-ap

Bug#845715: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree

2018-11-11 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 08:38:07PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst > index dc80243..3c6c9d5 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-source.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst > @@ -291,6 +291,20 @@ For packages in the main archive, no required targets > may atte

Bug#824495: debian-policy: Source packages "can" declare relationships

2018-11-11 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 at 19:29:03 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu 08 Nov 2018 at 02:51PM GMT, Ian Jackson wrote: > >(ii) output packages with additional features or functionality. > >Such additional features MAY imply additional functional runtime > >dependencies, which then SHOULD be

Bug#845715: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree

2018-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 08:42:27PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat 03 Nov 2018 at 11:42PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > >> How about: > >> > >> As an exception, required targets may write to the directory specified > >> by the ``TMPDIR`` environment variable (or ``/tmp``

Bug#690750: Broken links in developers-reference as published on the Debian's website

2018-11-11 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Proposal: maybe the easiest way to make all variants (view via debian.org > and opened locally) work correctly, would be to change it this way: > > "This page is also available in > https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#devref";>French, German, > Italian, Russi