Guillem Jover writes:
> The rendering to plain text contain many technical terms, program names,
> email addresses, make rule names, etc., that have been cut at their
> hypen at the end of line. This makes copy&paste more difficult, and it
> reads confusingly.
> I started collecting a list of th
Russ Allbery writes:
> --- a/policy/ch-opersys.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-opersys.rst
> @@ -388,11 +388,14 @@ argument ``stop``.
> Writing the scripts
> ~~~
>
> -Packages that include daemons for system services should place scripts
> -in ``/etc/init.d`` to start or stop services at
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Hi!
Noticed the following instances of spurious spaces after a dash, while
skimming over the plain text policy document:
- index, rendered as:
,---
* 7.8. Additional source packages used to build the binary -
"Built- Using"
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Hi!
Found this markup issue while going over the policy:
- chapter 4, footnote [6], rendered as:
,---
listed in the :ref:"`Maintainer" <#s-f-Maintainer` or "`Uploaders"
` control fields of the package), the first line
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Hi!
The rendering to plain text contain many technical terms, program
names, email addresses, make rule names, etc., that have been cut
at their hypen at the end of line. This makes copy&paste more
difficult, and it reads confusingly.
I start
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Hi!
There's this text in section §9.2.1:
,---
Packages other than "base-passwd" must not modify "/etc/passwd",
"/etc/shadow", "/etc/group" or "/etc/gshadow".
`---
It's not clear to me, whether this refers to the packaging or any
pro
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The full sentence in question is "This field should not be added
solely for purposes other than satisfying license or DFSG requirements
to provide full source code".
"solely for purposes other than satisfying" is the problematic
constructio
On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 09:00:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Guillem Jover writes:
> > This means that when using a debian/watch file one has to duplicate
> > the information in two places, with the possibility of this getting
> > out-of-sync, etc.
>
> > In addition the machine readable debian/cop
Guillem Jover writes:
> This means that when using a debian/watch file one has to duplicate
> the information in two places, with the possibility of this getting
> out-of-sync, etc.
> In addition the machine readable debian/copyright format, specifies
> the Source field as optional, which could
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Hi!
We currently require (with a must) in section §12.5, to add to the
debian/copyright, where the upstream source was obtained from:
,---
In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources
(if any) were obtained,
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