---
> +
> +The directory ``/usr/share/locale/`` contains localization files for
> +different locales.
> +
> +Packages should not require the existence of any files in
> +``/usr/share/locale/`` in order to function in a ``C`` or ``C.UTF-8``
> +locale.
> +
> .. _s
itself.
?
(fwiw, Guillem: do you think the same text, once picked, should be
copied verbatim on deb-src-control(5)?)
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More a
have their own Description: fields" ?
Where would you add this line? The whole section is talking about
Description regardless of where it is used, so your suggestion doesn't
sounds any good there.
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n general. [...]
The fields in the general paragraph (the first one, for the source
package) are: [...]
Of course I'm happy to use a different expression (like, "first
paragraph of a source control file") if I'm recommended to.
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:18:35AM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> If I get no pushbacks I'll also propose some text later on when I'm
> freer (unless somebody beats me to it!).
I'm hereby seeking seconds (or, well, suggestions for improvements) for
the following di
l standard
- metalanguage for markup languages.
+Description: ${source:Synopsis} - Python3 bindings
+ ${source:Extended-Description}
.
This package contains the files needed to use the GNOME XML library
in Python3 programs.
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odified to filter this out of the Sources file?
I'm sure it could, but I don't think we would want that? As I wrote,
it's likely what we would like to have regardless, so that, say
`apt-cache showsrc` can bring some more information.
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few packages are going to make use of this
facility in the near future so it shouldn't really matter IMHO.
If I get no pushbacks I'll also propose some text later on when I'm
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erested in seconding such patch.
For whoever is going to write it, remember to talk about:
* Files-Excluded-$component
* Files-Included
which are even less-known bits of the "specification" (Files-Included is
also *very* new, in Debian times).
-
description: default base system /usr/bin/editor
> + alternatives:
> + - /usr/bin/editor
> + - name: editor
> + description: suitable /usr/bin/editor
> + alternatives:
> + - /usr/bin/editor
> - name: flexmem
> description: anything that can access flex
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:11:08PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Tue 18 May 2021 at 01:42PM +02, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>
> > Seconded.
>
> Thanks. I looked at applying this patch but the version we have in git
> doesn't apply to 'next' without first app
ual package ``editor`` by including it in the
> > ``Provides`` control field. The package providing the current default
Seconded.
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l file must not have more than one ``Vcs-``
> field. If the package is maintained in multiple version control
Seconded.
Thank you for formalizing this syntax.
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lly needed, consider it seconded by me.
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quot;1:2.3:abc" used to be valid).
¹ and I think it does:
https://salsa.debian.org/dbnpolicy/policy/-/commit/918cac858424739a5af269d993e4cadfab285b29
So, yes. I think it would be good to make the wording just clearer,
instead of carrying over some previous syntax from when the rules we
ently has trouble being deployed.
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he upgrading checklist?
I only read the title of the d-d-a mail, but I read the upgrade
checklist many times over the course of the years. Hope that answers
your question :)
I think this would be the case where a 3rd party thought would be
welcome :)
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.
Like you document in the checklist addition to the virtual packages:
also those don't require any change to existing packages, it's just
there for everybody to know that starting from that version they can
make use of that new thing.
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.4.1.0
SSIA.
(incidentally, due to this the change also didn't make it to d-d-a…)
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> + mail NM frontdesk using ``n...@debian.org``.
Mh, not really. For SSO issues, the point of contact is the SSO team.
The NM team grew a some know-how due to providing support in the past,
but I really don't want it to be advertised as the SSO support team.
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same person that used to be behind this Debian uid")
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ength actually),
probably debina-qa@ or debian-devel@. It was then implemented in
vcswatch (https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch) and elsewhere.
I'm positive a result of that discussion made clear there was no such
URI format available already.
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k
the usage of features because of a bug.
And don't use case insensitive file systems to do UNIX development. :)
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rated manpages.
What I mean is: if there is really enough people wanting this change by
all means do it, but 1. make the wording clear that is really optional
(in this view, I see "recommended" as too strong a word) and 2. I really
hope lintian won't start bothering for this.
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ificant time and effort
>
> +4.9
> +Required targets must not write outside of the unpacked source
> +package tree, except for TMPDIR (or /tmp if that is not set).
> +
> 10.1
> Binaries should be stripped using
> ``strip --strip-unneeded --remove-s
/hosts than having netbase. And with the presence of
people being actively against netbase in build essential then I'd say
this policy change can't go on at all…
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e, which is an
issue in my book.
On the note of /etc/hosts, I'm fixing the original bug rised by Simon
McVittie (that was triggered by tests.reproducible-builds.org not
resolving localhost) within pbuilder (#905307) btw.
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usr/share/doc/debian-policy/xx instead — also
considering Policy §12.3 (the relevant change made with v3.9.7).
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ean means a "regular patch" in the bug).
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believe the trouble Ian is referring to is much minor, and it's the
case where an useless epoch bump in debian caused the ubuntu autosync
to fail due to reuse of filename - which has been "fixed" differently in
policy by forbidding epoch-free-version reuse)
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> the move.
Done => https://salsa.debian.org/debian/developers-reference
And added you to the project.
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e is receiving the bug mails in any
way). Also CCing lucas…
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f maintainers" team at all, and
that if you actually wish to work on it you should go ahead, add
yourself to uploaders and do stuff.
Incidentally, what's your interest for working on devref? Surely you
have some other goal other than those very very minor changes…
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a patch like this, pretty much
everybody would like to see the filename and the hook delimiters (i.e.
everything git diff gives you).
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er formats are not very usable).
Right, that's a long known issue due to a sphinx bug (that has very
recently been fixed upstream).
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ackages against the upgrading
> checklist before they can upload other improvements is an example of
> requiring prerequisite work of volunteers that is not needed for
> co-ordinating with other volunteers. So we should not require it.
Agree, we should not require it. But I believe we shou
extended license specification).
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re/common-licenses/Artistic``,
> > + ``/usr/share/common-licenses/CC0-1.0``,
> > ``/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-1``,
> > ``/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2``,
> > ``/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3``,
Seconded.
(just know that I'd love to see as many long tex
t machinery at ftp-master. But that's for another day.
Personally I believe that should come *before* having it in policy.
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great effort of documenting how dpkg
behaves.
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t should be more
straightforward in conveying its meaning of "pretty please at least two
arch".
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ich very weirdly seemed to be what
most of the mails in this bug are about?
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it when you are
always used to see 3.
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should be avoided, and most
packages avoid it indeed, but this wording in the policy makes me feel
like it's pretty much the same.
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mapreri: well dpkg does not accept it but the perl code does
and remove it before generating the DEBIAN/control files so
it's all good
mapreri: I'll clarify the deb-src-control man page
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://bugs.debian.org/760021#20>.
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kages for which to run a specific autodep8
thing (which is what has been done for all the things currently in
autodep8 to have them enabled right away for all packages).
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Wait a second...
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017, 12:01 a.m. Sean Whitton
wrote:
> commit 18c8f975c6351c0c720804b7c4a9801561c94398
> Author: Sean Whitton
> Date: Sat Aug 26 12:44:44 2017 -0700
>
> correct description of Testsuite:
>
> - dpkg adds to binary control files
>
Not "binary"... It's ad
to remove them from the Uploaders list of the package so we can close
that part of the file.
(If the person is listed as Maintainer, what we are asking is to please
step in as a new maintainer.)
Thanks.
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x and then head to the relevant, single page.
> - since we're publishing only the single-page version on www.debian.org,
> we need to rewrite the links
Please do publish both.
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hange is
about clarifying that debian/copyright must exist (where before it was
"fine" not existing).
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https://sources.debian.net/src/inkscape/0.92.2-1/debian/upstream/signing-key.asc/
(that's
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/misc.git/tree/dump-gpg-keys.sh)
IOW: Guillem: I second merging that sig→asc converter into dpkg-source!
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, 11:02 p.m. Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Tracker:
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hsqldb1.8.0
> "Does not build reproducibly during testing"
>
And indeed it's not reproducible according to policy: it's storing the
build user at the very least.
>
> Let's look at the mdds package, th
packages) and §6.7.9 (best practices for
debug packages).
I suggest instead to recommend priority:optional.
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gitweb involved in any way here and where do you see any
"shortlog" section in
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dbnpolicy/policy.git ?
Which link are you clicking on?
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the second (or third, if
you start counting from 0, afaik there is no rule here) revision of that
version uploaded directly to 16.04)
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:02:38PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here's an updated patch that also fixes the other examples.
Thanks.
> diff --git a/copyright-format/copyright-format-1.0.xml
> b/copyright-format/copyright-format-1.0.xml
> index 8b72e10..f33c5a2 100644
> --- a/copyright-format/copy
say "Debian's general move towards using https for all projet
URLs", because it's hardly a Debian thing that plain text http is bad,
and I don't think a specification format is the place to explain it.
IMHO just drop that whole sentece; saying that both values are allowed
i
nd prerm scripts to:
> -
> - if which invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> - invoke-rc.d package <action>
> - else
> - /etc/init.d/package <action>
> - fi
> -
> + invoke-rc.d package
&
ly if they have such field, see
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/mirror/dak.git/tree/daklib/checks.py#n288
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/mirror/dak.git/tree/daklib/utils.py#n1372
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n and so i don't know whether
there are other packages requiring it.
I'll be happy to change align to the policy once it's clear, because i also
don't believe that definition of PATH is right for buildds.
Until them, i'll stick this as a blocked wishlist bug.
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