[developers-reference] branch master updated (e586826 -> 9a9bdb9)

2018-03-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. hertzog pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from e586826 Fix spelling, grammar, capitalisation and wording issues new 9a9bdb9 Update section about package tracker The 1 revision

[developers-reference] 01/01: Update section about package tracker

2018-03-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. hertzog pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit 9a9bdb951bfca5fbeec5ed6eaceced04ffe336b1 Author: Raphaël Hertzog Date: Thu Mar 15 00:51:07 2018 +0100 Update section about package

[developers-reference] branch master updated (66dcf83 -> 01aa6ab)

2015-12-10 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. hertzog pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from 66dcf83 Update the section about the package tracker new 01aa6ab Also document List-Id header in package tracker mails. The 1 re

[developers-reference] 01/01: Also document List-Id header in package tracker mails.

2015-12-10 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. hertzog pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit 01aa6abb9191354b88926a1626e92fce2a1405b2 Author: Raphaël Hertzog Date: Thu Dec 10 09:54:46 2015 +0100 Also document List-Id header in

[developers-reference] annotated tag debian/3.4.17 created (now 6446ab5)

2015-12-09 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
+EH0SOomqkXgDyYDD1+LU6eTygG477/102URJ3aaA= =ntf3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Paul Wise (1): Make it easier to update devref for a new Debian release. Raphaël Hertzog (1): Update the section about the package tracker

[developers-reference] branch master updated (fc56ee5 -> 66dcf83)

2015-12-09 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. hertzog pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from fc56ee5 Make it easier to update devref for a new Debian release. new 66dcf83 Update the section about the package tracker The 1

[developers-reference] 01/01: Update the section about the package tracker

2015-12-09 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. hertzog pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit 66dcf83329873f0c531fbdb7fe88329d0e303721 Author: Raphaël Hertzog Date: Wed Dec 9 10:46:34 2015 +0100 Update the section about the package

[developers-reference] branch master updated (b32b214 -> f205dbb)

2015-02-11 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. hertzog pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from b32b214 update Japanese translation new f205dbb Drop myself from Uploaders. The 1 revisions listed above as "new" are entirely n

Bug#681289: debian-policy: Changelog and copyright should be package metadata

2012-07-11 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: changelog Both the changelog and the copyright files are stored with a package's normal data (within data.tar in the .deb) but they are really package metadata (that should be part of control.tar in the .deb).

Bug#626779: debian-policy: Improve Architecture field in source package (updated to match dpkg-source)

2011-05-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch With dpkg >= 1.16.1, the value of the Architecture field in the .dsc is generated a bit differently. The goal is to be able to always know when a source package generates an architecture-independent package. Currently as soon as

Bug#584521: debian-policy: Process.html difficult to read and missing "State C"

2010-06-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: minor /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/Process.html is difficult to read as the text is grey and the background is another variant of grey. color: DarkSlateGrey; background-color: gainsboro; Please stick to plain black on a white background. Also in

Bug#582109: debian-policy: document triggers where appropriate

2010-05-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: normal The policy needs to be updated to take into account the dpkg triggers. At the very least it needs to document the new invocations of the postinst in chapter 6 (postinst triggered ...) see /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/triggers.txt.gz -- System In

Bug#578854: debian-policy: Wording about Conflicts needs to be clarified

2010-04-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: normal I stumbled upon policy 7.4: > A Conflicts entry should almost never have an "earlier than" version clause. > This would prevent dpkg from upgrading or installing the package which > declared > such a conflict until the upgrade or removal of

Bug#549910: debian-policy: Specify requirement in terms of upgradeability, interface stability

2009-10-06 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 Severity: wishlist We have some unwritten packaging rules and it would be good to write them down even if some of them appear to be obvious to most of us. I think in particular to stuff like: - a package must at least be upgradable from one stable release t

Bug#548867: developers-reference: Improve section about developer duties

2009-09-29 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.3 Severity: normal Following a discussion on debian-newmaint, I think it's important to improve the section about the duties to clearly communicate to all package maintainers (and not DD only) that the bare minimum is what I described in the pledge below

Bug#534638: debian-policy: Section about Info documents needs to be updated

2009-06-25 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.2.0 Severity: normal Since the upload of install-info to sid, packages installing info documentation should no more call install-info in their postinst. It is now automatically done by the file trigger provided by the install-info package. You should however ex

Bug#533852: debian-policy: Allow Binary field to span over multiple lines

2009-06-20 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.2.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch In response to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494714 I would like that the policy be updated to allow the Binary field in .dsc and .changes to span over multiple lines. Here's a suggested patch: --- a/policy.