Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi cate, On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > The rationale was probably similar so symlinks: they may fail across > different filesystems, and we supported to have e.g. / /usr /usr/share > /usr/local /var (and various /var/*) /home /tmp /boot etc on different file

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 05:05:43PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > > > Now we are more strict on where we can split filesystems > > What do you mean? > > If I remember correctly, now we do not support / and /usr to be on a > different filesystems Not really, please read https://freedesktop.org/w

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 12.10.2020 16:22, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Now we are more strict on where we can split filesystems What do you mean? If I remember correctly, now we do not support / and /usr to be on a different filesystems, and I think

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > Now we are more strict on where we can split filesystems What do you mean? -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 13.09.2020 12:52, Helmut Grohne wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.0.3 Severity: wishlist Jakub stumbled into the "No hard links in source packages" requirement added around 1996 and couldn't make sense of it. Neither could Christoph nor myself. tar does support hard links just fine.

Bug#971977: debian-policy: debian/changelog date syntax description inconsistent/ambiguous wrt. to day of month

2020-10-12 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Guillem, thanks for your prompt concurrence with both, #971977 and #971975. One nitpick: Guillem Jover wrote: > Right. I've clarified this now locally for deb-changelog(5) as follows: > +Is a one- or two-digit day of the month (B<01>-B<31>), where the heading