debian-policy is marked for autoremoval from testing

2025-01-04 Thread Debian testing autoremoval watch
debian-policy 4.7.0.1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2025-01-18 It is affected by these RC bugs: 1087626: debian-policy: Please support building the binaries without requiring fakeroot https://bugs.debian.org/1087626 For more information on the autoremoval process, including hints

Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files

2025-01-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 12:54:20PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Bill Allombert [250104 12:21]: > > > > Secondly, I just found a package that fails if /usr/share/doc is > > > > removed, so I wonder how far we can actually validate this. > > > > > > We've had that restriction in place for a

Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files

2025-01-04 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Bill Allombert [250104 12:21]: > > > Secondly, I just found a package that fails if /usr/share/doc is > > > removed, so I wonder how far we can actually validate this. > > > > We've had that restriction in place for a long time, so that package is > > just buggy, I think. > > Precisely, the pa

Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files

2025-01-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 10:28:55AM +, Sean Whitton wrote: > > For /usr/share/doc/$pkg, it is easy to move the files to /usr/share/$pkg. > > I don't think that would be a good fix in most cases. Maybe or maybe not in the majority of case, but at least this is simple enough to do on the packagi

Bug#1069256: debian-policy: clarify requirement for use of Static-Built-Using

2025-01-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 04 Jan 2025 at 05:20pm +08, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > On Wed, 2024-08-21 at 23:45 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >> >> > +A package that needs domain name suffix data from the publicsuffix >> > +binary package would list it in the ``Static-Built-Using`` field like >> > +so: >> >> Perha

Processed: Re: Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files

2025-01-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 + pending Bug #1089110 [debian-policy] [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files Added tag(s) pending. -- 1089110: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1089110 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.o

Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files

2025-01-04 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 + pending Hello, On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 06:00pm +01, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 01:33:58PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: >> > What is a graceful failure for some script is a crash for another... >> >> I would be happy to reduce the expectations of the language h

Processed: tagging 1069256

2025-01-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 1069256 + patch Bug #1069256 [debian-policy] debian-policy: clarify requirement for use of Static-Built-Using Added tag(s) patch. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 1069256: https://bugs.debian.

Bug#1069256: debian-policy: clarify requirement for use of Static-Built-Using

2025-01-04 Thread Maytham Alsudany
Hi, Most of the problems with wording have been fixed, except for the one I note below. On Wed, 2024-08-21 at 23:45 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > +A package that needs domain name suffix data from the publicsuffix > > +binary package would list it in the ``Static-Built-Using`` field like > >

Bug#1069256: debian-policy: clarify requirement for use of Static-Built-Using

2025-01-04 Thread Maytham Alsudany
On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 20:32 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 23:45:30 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-04-27 at 17:40:49 +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > > > +A package statically linked with the libraries contained in the > > > +librust-gtk4-dev and librust-pulsect