Debian Technical Committee article

2024-08-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Jake et al., I am humbled by your excellent write-up of the TC talk at DebConf. [1] Thank you! I am thinking we might add a link to the article to our recruitment mail, especially with how effectively you discuss how we try to control the reading workload. I wanted to request one small cha

Bug#1057238: debian-policy: Take dpkg-build-api into account for Rules-Requires-Root

2024-08-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 13 Aug 2024 at 09:36pm +02, Niels Thykier wrote: > Can we have a trivial editorial change to the Rules-Requires-Root paragraph > saying that default depends on the `dpkg-build-api` used? > > Bringing it up, because we are seeing a recommendation for people to add a > `Rules-Requires

Bug#1057238: debian-policy: Take dpkg-build-api into account for Rules-Requires-Root

2024-08-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:42:34 + Sean Whitton wrote: Hello, On Sat 02 Dec 2023 at 01:22am +01, Guillem Jover wrote: > Starting with dpkg 1.22.0, it implements a dpkg-build-api mechanism > similar in concept to the debhelper-compat levels. > > You can check its documentation in the dpkg-build

Bug#1078505: developers-reference: document corner case of debian version and rational

2024-08-13 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 07:44:08AM +, Bastien Roucariès wrote: > I believe that policy is like law and devref is some kind of circulaire in > civil law country > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulaire) an interpretation of a legal text > that do not > introduce new rules but clarify law.

Bug#1078505: developers-reference: document corner case of debian version and rational

2024-08-13 Thread Bastien Roucariès
Le mardi 13 août 2024, 03:03:31 UTC Sean Whitton a écrit : > Hello, > > Policy has a fair bit of this already but it's spread out. > E.g. take a look at 5.6.12.2. > > Rather than duplicating, it might be helpful to have a discussion in > dev-ref that is kind of an index to all these relevant bits