Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* PJ Weisberg [Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 08:46:22AM -0700]: > On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I'm not sure if we can make it much more obvious than what it currently > > says.  There's no mention or hint of permissions anywhere in the > > description you quote, and it specifically

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Bill Allombert [Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 02:48:11PM +0200]: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:33:03PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > > | 5.6.3 Uploaders [...] > > I don't mean to nit-pick but I just had a discussion with some DDs > > about who should be really listed in the

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Russ Allbery [Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 07:30:37AM -0700]: > Michael Prokop writes: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders > > reads as follows: > > | 5.6.3 Uploaders > > | > > | List of the names and email addresses of co

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders reads as follows: | 5.6.3 Uploaders | | List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the | package, if any. If the package has other maintainers besides the | one nam

Bug#620566: dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in contrast to policy

2011-04-04 Thread Michael Prokop
* Russ Allbery [Sun Apr 03, 2011 at 08:12:03PM -0700]: > Michael Prokop writes: > > Yeah, actually the change is breaking existing packages which used to > > work just fine (disclaimer: no, the ones I'm talking about aren't > > available in the official Debian pool

Bug#620566: dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in contrast to policy

2011-04-03 Thread Michael Prokop
* Julien Cristau [Son Apr 03, 2011 at 10:16:47 +0200]: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 05:03:47 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 21:28:08 +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > > > dpkg 1.16.0 appears to refuse to install packages which have a Version: > > > field which does not sta

Bug#568374: debian-policy: section "8.4 Development files" not explicit enough regarding libraryname[soversion]-dev

2010-02-04 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Section 8.4 of the policy says: | 8.4 Development files | | The development files associated to a shared library need to be | placed in a package called librarynamesoversion-dev, or if you | prefer only to support one development version at a time, | lib