On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:27:27AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
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> Patrick Ouellette writes:
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> > Policy 7.4 states
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> > "Neither Breaks nor Conflicts should be used unless two packages cannot
> > be installed at the same time or installing them both cau
Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal
Policy 7.4 states
"Neither Breaks nor Conflicts should be used unless two packages cannot be
installed at the same time or installing them both causes one of them to be
broken or unusable. Having similar functionality or performing the same tasks
as anot
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:51:30AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
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> IMHO, /usr/bin/node is much too generic a name to be in any package.
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Too generic or not, /usr/sbin/node has been in Debian since at least 1999
(13 or so years now).
I'm also sure there are many other projects using similarly
Jonathan has left out a bit of history here. please review
the following bug reports while thinking about the issue:
http://bugs.debian.org/597571
http://bugs.debian.org/611698
http://bugs.debian.org/614907
These show evidence the people involved may not especially be of a mind
to comply with po
> Patrick> I found no mention in the web site's policy manual of
> Patrick> version numbering.
>
> That is because t is in the packaging manual. Debian Policy
> Manual is a little bit of a misnomer in that policy is actually
> spread over a number of authoritative documents; the packagi
I found no mention in the web site's policy manual of version numbering.
Since it has made the transition to the policy list, I am advocating
reviewing the policy (in the packaging manual) for possible changes to
solve future problems caused by the packaging of pre-release upstream
versions.
If p
OOPS
left should be right.
One of these days I'll be able to tell my left and right apart!
> -Original Message-
> From: Patrick Ouellette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 1998 3:13 PM
> To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
> Cc: Debian Deve
I think a reasonable policy statement for this would be something like:
All pre-release versions will have debian revision of -0.x
Maintainer release revisions will start at -1 and increment in
whole numbers
Non maintainer releases will add a point version to the left of the
maintainer release
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