Bug#874663: Document +dfsg as extenson when repacking upstream sources

2017-09-08 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 08/09/2017 à 07:44, Simon McVittie a écrit : > On Fri, 08 Sep 2017 at 16:10:44 +0200, Guido Günther wrote: >> when upstream tarballs need to be repacked because they contain non-dfsg >> free data appending '+dfsg' to the upstream version seems common >> practice. […] > It's a coincidence th

Bug#850646: [copyright-format] Allow https version of Format URI

2017-01-08 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 08/01/2017 à 09:42, Russ Allbery a écrit : > […] the Format > URI for the current copyright-format document is actually a redirect. Nitpicking: it’s actually not a real redirect. Fetching it directly (e.g., using wget) works via plain HTTP. Regards. David signature.asc Description: O

Bug#769818: Bug#766118: lintian: False positive for “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright”

2015-04-18 Thread David Prévot
Hi, [ Charles, please keep some relevant context when replying to a bug report, “bts -m show ##” can help. ] Le 18/04/2015 02:25, Charles Plessy a écrit : > regarding the tag "missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright", I think, like > Martin, that it should not be triggered by multi-lin

Bug#769818: Bug#766118: lintian: False positive for “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright”

2015-04-03 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 03/04/2015 19:25, Martin Erik Werner a écrit : > I'm seeing this same warning without the back-reference to header, for > example this copyright file: > > ### > Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > Upstream-Name: td > Source: http://example.com > Lic

Bug#761219: debian-policy: document versioned Provides

2015-03-13 Thread David Prévot
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:57:57PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > dpkg 1.17.11 and apt 1.0.7 recently implemented support for versioned > provides. […] > This clearly needs an update. No proposed wording yet, sorry. Here is a simple one, stripping away the incorrect restriction. The consideration abou

[developers-reference] branch master updated (9a6f361 -> 60c5202)

2014-10-08 Thread David Prévot
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. taffit pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from 9a6f361 German po4a translation: Review by Erik Pfannenstein new 6fbf9ac Update French translation new afa2132 tidypo: C

Bug#756491: developers-reference: Vcs-git field: typo anonscn instead of anonscm

2014-07-30 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 30/07/2014 06:11, Fabien Givors a écrit : > I recenctly tried to debcheckout developers-reference, it failed and noticed a > typo in the Vcs-GIT field. It looks like the migration was made in a hurry without considering: - - at least inform

Bug#736381: developers-reference: add Steam subscriptions to the list of goodies offered to Debian Developers

2014-01-22 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 22/01/2014 19:15, Paul Wise a écrit : > Please add Steam subscriptions to the list of goodies offered to Debian > Developers, As additional data, I’ve seen comments on IRC today pointing it may not be such a good idea to incite DD to instal

Bug#731810: Please, do not advertise DEHS

2013-12-09 Thread David Prévot
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, Policy 4.11 advertise DEHS while the “DEHS service is dead since August 2011.” [0] 0: https://wiki.debian.org/DEHS Regards David From 635b679d09b9eafabaa9a20747fce865d6ff50fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?David=20Pr=C3=A

Bug#715804: Debian policy for web apps still references /doc as accessible

2013-07-10 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 10/07/2013 19:06, Charles Plessy a écrit : > I note that /doc was only to be served locally. How did that cause security > issues ? - if some front-end server on the same host forwards connections to an apache2 backend server on the

Bug#685039: developers-reference: please document what is needed to reintroduce a package

2012-09-16 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 16/09/2012 21:16, Paul Wise a écrit : > > -Moving, removing, renaming, adopting, and orphaning packages > +Moving, removing, reintroducing, renaming, adopting, and orphaning > packages > I guess “reintroducing” should be the last item o

Bug#671355: debian-policy: [debconf_spec] Document escape capability.

2012-08-27 Thread David Prévot
Le 27/08/2012 11:24, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > >> I just figured out that Defconf's escape capability is not mentionned in >> the spec. Here is a small patch to correct this. > > Seconded. > >> From: Charles Plessy >> Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 22:19:30 +0900 >> Subject: [P

Bug#685646: Please advise a reliable version scheme for {stable,testing}{,-security}

2012-08-22 Thread David Prévot
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.9 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, As discussed on #d-release, the version scheme advice could be improved, so should the distribution declared in changelog, for the testing and {old,}stable upload (including the -security ones), in order to have only on

Translation update of the developers-reference (Was: Bug#679562: developers-reference: note that it is possible for Release Team to override urgency)

2012-08-13 Thread David Prévot
Hi Chris, Hideki, Le 08/08/2012 21:48, David Prévot a écrit : > I'd be happy to poke translators And here I am, could you please update your translation in order to push the last up to date version in the upcoming Wheezy? > po4a/po/de.po: 1319 translated messages, 22 fuzzy tran

Re: Bug#679562: developers-reference: note that it is possible for Release Team to override urgency

2012-08-08 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 09/07/2012 03:31, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > Thanks, applied with minor tweaks. (And I dropped some supplementary > uninteresting information) A few strings needs to be updated in translations too, I'd be happy to poke translators and take care of a team upload as soon as the translation

Bug#679735: developers-reference: typo: Freenodes -> Freenode

2012-07-28 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Control: tags -1 pending Le 01/07/2012 04:44, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > $ zcat developers-reference.txt.gz | grep Freenode > key in the Debian keyring. Please see Freenodes documentation for > > It should be s/Freenodes/Freenode/. Thanks Jakub,

Bug#666578: Fixed FTBFS in SVN

2012-06-09 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 15/04/2012 08:18, Osamu Aoki a écrit : > I just fixed this bug in subversion for developers-reference Thanks, please note that the interoperability problem of frenchb.ldf and xeCJK.sty part of the issue has been fixed in the mean time, see #668562. > Who will be uploading this package.

Bug#587279: debian-policy: section 2.2.1 needs some tweaking

2012-03-12 Thread David Prévot
Le 12/03/2012 13:44, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 01:56:17AM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: >> […] how a possible mechanism to let users choose between "always prefer >> free packages" and "follow the maintainer's recommendation, even it >> a non-free package is preferred" could

Re: Upcoming Policy plans

2012-03-03 Thread David Prévot
Le 03/03/2012 06:10, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 08:21:31PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> David Prévot writes: >> >>> There is something else I didn't thought earlier: with the conversion >>> from DebianDoc to DocBook, the HTML pages

Re: Upcoming Policy plans

2012-03-02 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 02/03/2012 23:43, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Russ Allbery writes: > >> First, I plan on releasing 3.9.3.1 next week Thanks for the reminder. > debian-www folks, this version will have upgrading-checklist.html in the > policy.html directory. I believe this is a better document to publish

Re: Bug#659070: www.debian.org: internal links point to English pages in

2012-02-07 Thread David Prévot
reassign 659070 developers-reference thanks Hi Luca, Thanks for your report, it looks like a known issue not yet documented. Le 07/02/2012 21:09, Luca Capello a écrit : > The internal links on the French version of the developers-reference > point to the English pages or, better, to the pages w

Bug#629530: developers-reference: Japanese PDF available

2012-01-14 Thread David Prévot
Le 13/01/2012 22:54, Osamu Aoki a écrit : > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 09:41:10AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:42:12 +0900 >> Osamu Aoki wrote: > Japanese PDF: > > http://people.debian.org/~taffit/developers-reference-xetex/developers-reference.ja.pdf >> Most of

Bug#629530: developers-reference: Japanese PDF available

2012-01-10 Thread David Prévot
tags 629530 pending thanks. Hi, Le 09/01/2012 12:49, David Prévot a écrit : >> Le 07/06/2011 08:56, Osamu Aoki a écrit : >>> If you move this build this with XeTeX (specifically xelatex), this >>> problem goes away. > > Indeed, I just rebuilt it with

Bug#629530: developers-reference: PDF code example has wrong U+2019 for '

2012-01-10 Thread David Prévot
Le 10/01/2012 03:26, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Mon, 09 Jan 2012, David Prévot wrote: >> As you may have noticed, the English document looks different: I quickly >> copied and pasted part of the maint-guide build system > Why did you have to do this change? Was it not e

Bug#629530: developers-reference: PDF code example has wrong U+2019 for '

2012-01-09 Thread David Prévot
with XeTeX and it works: http://people.debian.org/~taffit/developers-reference-xetex/developers-reference.pdf Le 08/06/2011 13:13, David Prévot a écrit : > Lucas, Raphaël, could we consider moving away of pdflatex build? This > may allow to build the Japanese PDF, which would also be an improvement.

Bug#655153: Trivial unfuzzy: please document the easy way

2012-01-08 Thread David Prévot
Source: developers-reference Version: 3.4.6 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n patch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, The developers reference currently documents two ways to unfuzzy translations [1]. msguntypot offers an easy way to do the job, please document it instead. The atta

Re: Bug#649811: Publication of copyright-format 1.0, a.k.a DEP 5 (after it is accepted).

2011-12-30 Thread David Prévot
Le 26/12/2011 22:19, David Prévot a écrit : > Le 26/11/2011 03:27, Charles Plessy a écrit : >> For the text version, I am not sure how necessary it is. >> […] not distributing [the text version] at all [is] also valid option > CCing debian-policy, in case someone has an op

Bug#89038: mime policy copying update-mime(8)

2011-12-26 Thread David Prévot
Le 26/12/2011 14:46, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> Ben Finney writes: >>> Attached is a patch that simply incorporates the useful content from >>> ‘mime-policy’ into the main ‘policy’ document, and removes the >>> redundant document. > And this patch has now been applied. Sorry about the long delay

Re: Bug#649811: Publication of copyright-format 1.0, a.k.a DEP 5 (after it is accepted).

2011-12-26 Thread David Prévot
tags 649811 patch thanks... Le 26/11/2011 03:27, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:31:58PM -0400, David Prévot a écrit : > In your patch, only one version is expected. Thanks for spotting that, the purpose was indeed to get all available versions. >> Attac

Bug#639663: Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-12-25 Thread David Prévot
Hi, CCing debian-www since we may be of little help here, but not tagging the bug as “affects www.debian.org” yet, since Russ first proposal doesn't need anything on our side. Le 25/12/2011 13:58, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: >> Having nice HTML links from the upgrade checkli

ELIST [Was: New policy is not consensual]

2011-11-20 Thread David Prévot
On 20/11/2011 22:04, David Prévot wrote: > Hi, Ooops, I replied on a wrong list, sorry for the noise. Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: New policy is not consensual

2011-11-20 Thread David Prévot
Hi, On 02/11/2011 11:17, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > As you might have noticed, I send some mails. Let's first see, if we > can reach a consensus, let's say... by the end of the week. Alexander, you wrote this message two weeks ago, is there any chance you could try and help us find a wa

Bug#640737: [copyright-format] Format URL and installation on www.debian.org

2011-10-31 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 22/10/2011 10:57, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 06:27:15PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : >> >> So I propose to do the following, in line with the other propositions. >> >> a) Apply the attached patch to point at >> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyrig

Bug#640737: [copyright-format] Format URL and installation on www.debian.org (Re: Bug#640737: [copyright-format] misc. changes from driver.)

2011-09-27 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 27/09/2011 21:17, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: >> Le Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 05:45:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : >>> The advantage of instead using: >>> >>> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-form

Bug#640737: [copyright-format] misc. changes from driver.

2011-09-26 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 26/09/2011 12:05, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Bill Allombert writes: >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:31:47AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >>> I think that we need to resolve #640737 first. The most frequently >>> proposed URL, >>> ‘http://www

Bug#629530: On line developers-reference now extracted from package

2011-07-04 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 09/06/2011 08:23, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, David Prévot wrote: >> […] it >> could be a good time to extract the content from the latest package than >> building the Subversion version on www-maste

Bug#629530: developers-reference: PDF code example has wrong U+2019 for '

2011-06-08 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 07/06/2011 08:56, Osamu Aoki a écrit : > TeX backend (specifically pdflatex) used to create this PDF is the > cause. > > If you move this build this with XeTeX (specifically xelatex), this > problem goes away. Thanks for spotting the err

Bug#623489: developers-reference: [INTL:de] initial German translation

2011-04-22 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 22/04/2011 03:11, Chris Leick a écrit : > When I'm opening this page, I guess that you are referring to the German index [1]. 1: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/index.de.html > I can see the content in german, but all > links r

Bug#623489: developers-reference: [INTL:de] initial German translation

2011-04-20 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 tags 623489 pending thanks Hi, Le 20/04/2011 13:53, Chris Leick a écrit : > I've added the german translation of the developer's reference to the > SVN repository. That's great, thanks. > Please activate this language. I fixed the build errors

Bug#606869: debian-policy: Please fix freedesktop.org links

2010-12-12 Thread David Prévot
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, freedesktop.org URL in the Policy are moved permanently. The following patch solve this issue. Regards David diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 642f672..a6bc73c 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -894

Bug#257150: Updated patch from Nicolas François

2010-11-21 Thread David Prévot
Please find attached the patch from Nicolas François updated to the new DocBook source format. Index: debian/changelog === --- debian/changelog (révision 7379) +++ debian/changelog (révision 7380) @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ * Update outda

Announce of an upcoming upload for the developers-reference package

2010-11-07 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear maintainer of developers-reference and Debian translators. After asking, Lucas proposed to sponsor an upload of the developers-reference, that will close plenty of bugs already pending in the Subversion repository. I just asked the Japanese tran

Bug#601408: developers-reference: Document UNRELEASED value for Distribution field

2010-10-25 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 severity 601408 wishlist thanks Le 25/10/2010 16:05, anatoly a écrit : > Package: developers-reference > Severity: important Tagging “important” a wishlist bug won't make it resolved quickly. Providing a patch might... > UNRELEASED is not listed amo

Re: Small typo in the developer's reference

2010-07-13 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 13/07/2010 20:47, Nick Andrik a écrit : > Last phrase in 5.12: > > Conversely, it *it* a bad idea to keep a package with only the mailing > list address as a Maintainer and no Uploaders. Thanks for noticing, it is corrected. Cheers David -B

Bug#585161: developers-reference: dinstall run happens four times a day

2010-06-22 Thread David Prévot
I managed to make a mistake in my previous "two word" patch, sorry for the noise. Cheers David diff -ur /mnt/donnees/1/debian/trans/dev-ref//resources.dbk dev-ref/resources.dbk --- /mnt/donnees/1/debian/trans/dev-ref//resources.dbk 2010-06-20 09:22:53.112984447 -0400 +++ dev-ref/resources.dbk 20

Bug#585161: dinstall run happens four time a day

2010-06-20 Thread David Prévot
tags 585161 patch thanks Hi, Developer's reference maintainers, please feel free to confirm the issue, and approve this patch if it is correct, I'm willing to upload it and synchronize the French version at the same time if (and only if) this patch is OK for you. Cheers David diff -ur /mnt/don

Bug#586163: debian-policy: Typo, please use "Debianised" the same way everywhere

2010-06-16 Thread David Prévot
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, Policy often refers to "Debianised source", but one time, it is used with a "z" instead of the "s", one time it is used without the first capital letter, and another time is used a derivative word ("debianisation") without

Bug#582811: developers-reference: simplify version scheme in pkgs.dbk

2010-05-23 Thread David Prévot
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, While updating the French translation of the Developer's Reference (currently reviewed on debian-l10n-fre...@l.d.o), I noticed that part of the last paragraph about "NMUs and debian/changelog" might be obsolete. When

Bug#580135: 12.7 Changelog files shouldn't advise the use of lynx

2010-05-04 Thread David Prévot
Le 03/05/2010 16:19, Don Armstrong a écrit : > On Mon, 03 May 2010, David Prévot wrote: >> In order to include upstream changelog distributed in HTML, and convert >> it as a plain text changelog.gz, policy should advise the use of >> html2txt (which debhelper already depends

Bug#580135: [debian-policy] 12.7 Changelog files shouldn't advise the use of lynx

2010-05-03 Thread David Prévot
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, In order to include upstream changelog distributed in HTML, and convert it as a plain text changelog.gz, policy should advise the use of html2txt (which debhelper already depends on) rather than lynx that has fewer chance

Bug#578664: developers-reference: outdated examples in pkgs/resources.dbk

2010-04-21 Thread David Prévot
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.3 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, While updating the French translation of the Developer's Reference (currently reviewed on debian-l10n-fre...@l.d.o), I noticed a few outdated mentions. Please find attached a patch on the svn version. Cheers David --