At 2023-09-10T21:47:36+0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> Quoting Bill Allombert (2023-09-10 18:29:36)
> > On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 09:00:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > Jonas Smedegaard writes:
> > > >> Hmm, how about providing license-common package and that
> > > >> depends
At 2018-11-13T17:02:49+, Ian Jackson wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson writes ("Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against
> policy?"):
> > Not reopening, but I have some questions for the Policy team.
> ...
> > I could have sworn you were incorrect, but sur
an \
-type l); do if ! test -f "$F"; then file "$F"; dpkg -S "$F"; fi; done
4938
/usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz: broken symbolic link to gdb.1.gz
rust-gdb: /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz
> X
>
> G. Branden Robinson:
> > Package: rust-gdb
&
mittee.
Ideally, provided sufficiently qualified and trusted individuals are available
to fill both teams, there should be little overlap in membership, so that the
bodies have mutual independence.
[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
[2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
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Please update http://www.debian.org/intro/organization accordingly.
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:01:25AM -0600, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> So you are going to implement this even if the discussion is not already
> closed. Of course you can implement it anyway, but it's unfair to ignore what
> Branden Robinson asked:
>
> Mess
gain, we can always use debian/interfaces or
> debian/rules.targets or something similar instead
I really like the debian/interfaces proposal.
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:26:24AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > Uh, what if I want to put the following at the very top of my
> > debian/control file?
> >
> > # $Id$
> >
> > I was given to understand
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:24:09PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:02:56PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > Joy proposed to put such information in debian/control instead.
> > >
> >
like debian/control.in.
debian/rules.in is almost impossible, but debian/control can be
generated by debian/rules.
Also, having to parse debian/control to determine what format
debian/control might be in is a bad idea.
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emented by each component (object) of the source package.
>
> $ cat debian/interface
> rules: , , ...
> control: , , ...
I don't have a problem with this at all.
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:55:36PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Branden Robinson writes ("Re: Bug#218530: Suboptimal conditional rune for
> initscripts"):
> > Ah, I see the reason:
> ...
> > [127] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % ash
> > $ type ls
> > ls is /
pt, then
> there's not much point in continuing the discussion, I think.
Oh, come on. It's obvious from context that he meant "contention", and
misspoke.
Not all of us on these lists are native English speakers, but that
doesn't excuse deliberate misconstrual of other
ented interface, but
rather his knowledge of what's going on *behind* the interface. Good
programmers know not to take such things for granted.
Unless Manoj can come up with a different argument that I find
persuasive, I would continue to support a proposal to loosen the
definition of a debi
r disallowing debian/rules from being
> a non-makefile.
(itinerant policy-editor hat on)
Me neither.
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:02:17PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:50:41AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I believe package management utilities are allowed to omit the short
> > description in favor of the long one for interface considerations.
&
ription in favor of the long one for interface considerations.
The package's short description should not be a sentence. The long
description should be one sentence at the VERY least.
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under my control. A
virtual package is not needed to coordinate between two packages I
maintain.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
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> +
>
>
Seconded. Until and unless I say otherwise, the footnote text can be
amended arbitrarily, or even deleted entirely, without invalidating my
second.
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:38:51PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Ok. Redirecting to debian-policy.
Please follow the Policy amendment process.
apt-get install debian-policy
and then view:
file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy-process.html/index.html
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default,
> too much effort required to convince people that their pet fancy shouldn't
> be RC, and the RC policy not being up to date enough when it counts,
> and all.
Of couse, those ills are a thing of the past now...
/me coughs*143825*
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current form, Policy *will*
continue to be used as a stick. A fairly large one, at that.
I reiterate my position from last year:
* decouple the Policy manual from bug severities
* decouple bug severities from release management
Neither of these mean that the Policy Manual or Release Manager
d of course
that responsibility can be shared with whomever he sees fit (as
mutually agreed upon).
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=97671
(scroll down about 25% and start reading).
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ecrotic.deadbeast.net/~branden/toronto/debconf/10.html
Colin Walters is on the left.
Colin Watson is on the right.
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Latin1 in these fields.
Amen. 7-bit ASCII only.
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http://people.debian.org/~brand
kage, that could provide or
> depend on these virtual packages, has a well known spot to go to to
> get the list of established virtual package names.
>
> I do think we need to re-write the para to state that the list
> is merely a registry, of sorts, of established virtual package
es.
>
> Technically, it's enough to mandate /etc, but suggesting the use of
> symlinks from /usr might make life a bit easier for some maintainers who
> are aghast at the thought of rewriting upstream to use /etc natively.
> *cough*143825*cough*
*cough*Patches
then be restored.
This will teach me to listen to someone who is obsessively pedantic over
proper usage of SGML tags -- they'll just wander off on some stupid
tangent and wax preachy about how they'd pedantically do things if we
wen're using SGML.
:-P
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:56:51AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:39:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > b) what severity such bugs should be
> >
> > I strongly disagree with this. I wrote up an extensive explanation of
> &g
20. this will solve the
> > metacity problem.
>
> Seconded.
I second this as long as people swear to stop bitching at me about what
window manager ends up as the default. :-P
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:30:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:41:15AM +, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> > I suggest that the following patch be applied to policy in order to
> > resolve this issue:
> >
> > --- policy.sgml.o
nal to
whether we decide RFC-style must/should/mays are useful.
> b) what severity such bugs should be
I strongly disagree with this. I wrote up an extensive explanation of
why recently:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2002/debian-ctte-200211/msg00027.html
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ified command,
> + interpreting the entirity of the rest of the command
> + line as a command to pass straight to exec, in the
> + manner that xterm does.
>
>
>
> Support the command-line op
stinst, live in the same location.
[...]
> They are not even accessed by the user directly, and certainly
> not by emacs.
This description unambiguously screams /var/log to me. Clearly your
mileage varies.
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:13:50PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Branden> Well, according to the FHS, you shouldn't be putting variabel data
> in
> Branden> /usr at all:
>
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:57:43AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Branden> I don't have one any more specific than "somewhere under /var".
> Branden> /var/log doesn't wo
aring a comment period, it is customary to announce when it
will end.
How long do you propose to wait before declaring this proposal
non-objectionable?
So far I haven't seen any complaints that wouldn't be addressed by Colin
Watson's planned update to the man-db package.
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mething that goes against making less work for the editor.
>
> I don't think this is a big deal, really, do you?
I think now that we have Josip as an editor, he can pick any SGML diffs
free of nits. :)
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nd. Unless he wants to
delegate the conclusion of this matter to one of the other editors
(Julian, Josip, or me).
(...ah, this post was worth it just for the wicked grin I had on my face
while writing it. :) )
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:17:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Branden> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:10:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> You can decide not to log for _y
I second the proposal in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:10:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> You can decide not to log for _your_ package. I certainly am
> going to continue to log the compilation for mine.
Well, will you consider placing them in a more FHS-friendly location
than /usr/share? :)
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about the bug
that I agree that it's a bug, it's been triaged, I'm aware of it, and
that I intend to fix it. It's just not a high-priority item. I want to
fix it right, which means Imake tweakage. Imake doesn't really
know about FHS[2], which is suboptimal. If it did,
est
> the inclusion from the maintainer or compile the library his/herself.
The user can do all kinds of things for "hisself" [sic]; Debian tries to
make such things straightforward.
How about a policy proposal that simply clears up the redundancy rather
than pursuing a private agend
our policy proposals.
(I'd add that I think we should be careful anyway.)
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cause some of the
x-display-manager package maintainers in Debian refuse to use
/etc/X11/Xsession as the default X session script.
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27;t like this. Please just play with the scoring of EWMH
support instead.
"Depends: metacity | ewmh-x-window-manager | x-window-manager"? Ugh.
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> + directory /usr/share/doc/man-db/examples.
Now weren't you just telling me a couple of weeks ago not to go by
man(7) because it documents obsolete constructs?
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Feel free to read what I wrote as "support the -e option as xterm does".
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xterm.
Okay, I get it. Yes, clarification is required.
I guess we have to mandate that -e be treated as the last
x-terminal-emulator option, eh?
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>The `Build-Depends-Indep' and `Build-Conflicts-Indep' fields must
>be satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked:
> - `build', `build-indep', `binary' and `binary-indep'.
> + `build', `bui
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but if people are going to have a hissy fit about
it, then I can abandon that. My preference for "update-init" over
"update-rc.d" is much greater than my preference for "init-update" over
"update-init".
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purports
to mandate) that arguing over the relative merits of stepi versus nexti
seems insignificant to me.
(BTW, someone's mailer is a complete piece of crap. What the F is up
with mangling the subject line like that?)
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:43:06PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Well, are we basically in rough consensus about this now?
>
> Here's an updated patch which just makes the priority increase 20
> instead of 30.
I don't object.
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ot;netwm" alternative might actually be the
> best approach all around, even if it is a little more complicated.
I am tempted to agree.
> (I still want to hear what Branden has to say about all of this, too.)
I haven't firmly made up my mind yet.
Can someone tell me what th
a module for the
Dotfile Generator
dict-client Any package providing clients for the Dictionary Server
I am seeking seconds for this proposal.
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re it's
dead in the water. I doubt that providing a description as you suggest
will do anything to overcome Mark Brown's opposition to the idea.
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have to be sure that
only one "pdf-viewer" is installed at a time; there are precious
resources that are monopolized by such tools. We need to be enhancing
the user experience in Debian by doing away with these meaningless
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> raw sockets would fulfil the role ("It does DHCP if you use the right
> commands!"). Perhaps I just don't understand what this package is
> intended to achieve?
These appear to be equally valid arguments against all other virtual
packages in Debian.
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 05:09:06PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:21:15AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > Etherconf never invokes anything other than ifup and ifdown. It's ifup
> > that has the smarts. I know it already handles dhcp-client and
ny Linux Systems - http://progeny.com/
"When everyone has to reinvent the wheel, many people invent
square wheels."
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d not a reason to object to a dhcp-client
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cessary for the specification of a virtual package, and I don't think
etherconf needs it, either.
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ely the interfaces
> differ, not of how the dependencies should be handled.
So you have no objection to a dhcp-client virtual package, then?
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s no dependency on
any DHCP client. That it did not properly support udhcpc has nothing to
do with package dependencies and thus nothing to do with virtual
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:36:58AM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:06:34AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > IMO "dhcp-client" should be a virtual package Provided by dhcp3-client,
> > udhcpc, and pump.
>
> I also concur. Does tha
suggest the following:
>
> Depends: debconf, ifupdown (>= 0.6.4), dhcp-client | dhcp3-client,
> libconfhelper-perl
>
> Is this acceptable, or is there some deep down dependency on
> dhcp-client 2.x?
IMO "dhcp-client" should be a virtual package Provided by d
tc.) and
the date on the calendar. Due to that, I think it makes more sense for
release management by an individual or a small team of people who work
together well.
The bottom line for me is that it's difficult to achieve consensus on
subjective issues. I think our approach to the twin neme
at bug if he wants his package to
release with Debian. If he doesn't, he can alter the severities of his
bugs pretty much at his discretion.
There is a lot more discussion of this issue in the logs of Bug #97671.
http://bugs.debian.org/97671
N.B.: the above is my recollection of a c
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:09:17AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> I didn't realize that policy compliance was some sort of buddy-boy
> system.
/me watches comprehension slowly, slowly wash over Clint's
countenance...
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:49:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> If you can't justify a change without reference to policy, then you
> shouldn't be suggesting it,
!?
No more wishlist bugs?
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Yeah, well, I'll be happy to change this once we have some official
Policy, or an offical Best Current Practice statement.
I'll let the shell maintainers finish their penis war
to
use; I don't care about the latest flamewar that moved it in or out of
/usr or */sbin.
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:07:23PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Further, /bin/bash is available and provides both type and test as
> >> builtins.
>
> > Bad news for any Debian port that wants to use ash a
ntial. At present, it's not even standard. An early-running init
script can have its package Depend on netcat, but until Decklin moved nc
to /bin, the init script *still* wouldn't work.
Therefore, I think we really do have two separate issues here.
Essentiality and /usrness. Thi
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:37:40PM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote:
> > | On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:13:23PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > | > If you're up to it, however, I would like to challenge you to implement
> > | > /usr/bin/tr(1) in /bin/sed(1). I few of
the silly /usr thang for once and for
> all.
I presume this is facetious because A) you mentioned Jeroen ;-) and B)
the Hurd's union mounts don't get you around the problem that / will
have more or less in it depending on how early in the boot sequence you
are. (At least, as I un
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:16:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:17:45PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > So why waste everyone's time discussing it rather than just using sed
> > > or /bin/sh and getting on with your life?
> > Becau
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:20:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:35:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:55:23PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > Anyway, there are already plenty of tools in /bin capable of performing
>
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.1
Severity: normal
A couple of points regarding policy 10.3.3 ("Managing the links"):
1) The policy does not mention that if your package changes its
runlevels or priority, that "update-rc.d package remove" MUST be called,
or update-rc.d will leave the existi
it scripts
to determine whether the executables they need exist. Of course, I'm
sure you're already aware of this, as you are of
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200205/msg02540.html>.
I'm CCing debian-policy as a means of RFD. I invite your parti
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:46:40PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 04:06:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Let me be perfectly clear:
> >
> > KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF XFREE86.
>
> You do realize this is now going to be quoted out of context an
k 600 packages so their maintainer scripts can be made
less robust is quite deserving of an unfriendly response.
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ny
> developer, so the only way i can demonstrate it is doing.
Let me be perfectly clear:
KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF XFREE86.
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r/bin/X11/XFree86 if I
want, but that doesn't mean that the Debian packaging infrastructure
offers to it for me via a debconf question, update-alternatives, or some
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ld up the woody
release over it or anything. We should still pick a path forward for
woody + 1.
IMO, anyone who uses zsh for /bin/sh is quite insane. ;-)
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[...]
> 2) Amending policy with another /bin/sh exception.
That's my preference. Of course, I am hardly unbiased as I pretty
consistently and deliberately use command -v in my maintainer scripts.
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Do me a favor and don't make pretensions to humor in the same message
where you accuse a person of dishonesty and hypocrisy. These are
serious charges and if you want to play Rush Limbaugh or James Carvilla,
I'm sure you know where the proper forums for such behavior are.
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On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:12:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Gotcha. Your humor detector is on the blink.
Ah, I see. So was the part where you called me a hypocrite a joke or
not?
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I don't see how that attitude helps anyone. Surely people do not need your
permission to discuss the utility of the "serious" severity?
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G. Branden Robinson|If a man ate a pound of pasta and a
Debian GNU/Linux
ove that tag and say
"tough, it's shipping"
03:40AM| aj: is this consistent with what you understood our
consensus to be?
03:40AM| and whatever the policy manual says is actually
decoupled from BOTH of these concerns
03:42AM| oh darn, did I lose him?
you get the
idea. Would you want this to end up as:
"Description: gNOME-based game; you're an ambulance driver and you've
got to keep your patients from arriving at the hospital D.O.A"?
The leading "mandatory" capital letter and trailing period are noise,
not signal.
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