Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy

2012-07-03 Thread Stephen Gran
that package. That is fairly obviously buggy. Cheers, -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :sg...@debian.org

Bug#568313: Suggestion: forbid the use of dpkg-statoverride in postinst scripts, except for --list

2010-02-03 Thread Stephen Gran
? Cheers, -- - | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' :sg...@debian.org | | `. `'Debi

Re: Bug#566220: [PATCH] Clarify "verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license"

2010-01-22 Thread Stephen Gran
bution license in the file > /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This > file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link. > Seconded. -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :

Re: Bug#548116: developers-reference: Section 3.7 - insert a reminder to retire from teams

2009-09-26 Thread Stephen Gran
a was mainly about alioth, yes. How are the account handled > currently when a DD retires? They are removed from gid Debian on Alioth. They are left as members of the teams, since on Alioth the teams are expected to manage their own membership. Cheers, -- ------

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-10 Thread Stephen Gran
tes a different extension. It seems like a reasonably compelling argument to me, but I don't feel strongly enough to fight for it. Cheers, -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Raphael Hertzog said: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: > Note that I'm not asking to mandate the tool. I would like to mandate the > fact that packages can rely on some environment variables being set to > some values. > > >

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-14 Thread Stephen Gran
wer to migrate to, but it seems to me to have the advantage of being the most flexible. Cheers, -- ----- | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :sg...@debian.org | | `. `'

Re: Bug#509935: decide whether Uploaders is parsed per RFC 5322

2009-01-19 Thread Stephen Gran
other languages. Cheers, -- - | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' :sg...@debian.org | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer | |`- http://www.debian.org | -

Bug#248809: system users

2008-11-20 Thread Stephen Gran
major pain will be migrating existing user setups to a new username (I personally don't think it would be worth the pain, but YMMV). -- - | ,''`.

Re: Perl policy documentation

2008-06-25 Thread Stephen Gran
t gets installed by the upstream tarball. This has nothing to do with CPAN modules. -- ----- | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer | |`- htt

Re: Bug#161912: dropping 30000-59999 uid/gid reservation

2008-06-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said: > This one time, at band camp, Russ Allbery said: > > Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > We could add all or part of this range to the dynamic range. > > > > I think we should add all of 3

Re: Bug#161912: dropping 30000-59999 uid/gid reservation

2008-06-07 Thread Stephen Gran
duser does not treat that range specially right now. -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and develo

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-17 Thread Stephen Gran
e where any of this is relevant? -- - | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer | |`- http://www.debian.org | --

Re: Task list for a policy release

2007-12-03 Thread Stephen Gran
You've either got your targets backwards or you're seriously confused. Working on an unpacked and patched tarball without taking the patch system into account just asks for trouble, and buys you very little gain. -- ----- | ,&#x

Re: Bug#405997: should executables be permitted to update themselves?

2007-01-14 Thread Stephen Gran
h. This also prevents you from using the shipped .jar in the deb. -- ----- | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#402975: debian-policy: Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf templates

2006-12-13 Thread Stephen Gran
been taking, and long overdue. Thanks Christian, -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jari Aalto said: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This one time, at band camp, Jari Aalto said: > > > "Depends:" make dependency visible, whereas filing a wishlist is > > > usually result of som

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread Stephen Gran
least sh -n them from various shells of your choice. -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and develo

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-11 Thread Stephen Gran
in a non-buildd or a non-one-shot > build process , should have the same, reproducible results as the > developer does. Fully agreed for both. > On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:52:06 +, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > It would be nice if we could support all so

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-11 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Russ Allbery said: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This one time, at band camp, Russ Allbery said: > > >> As previously discussed, it's very difficult to comply with this > >> directive as writ

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Russ Allbery said: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > clean > > > This must undo any effects that the build and binary targets may > > have had, except that it should leave alone any output files created > &g

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-10 Thread Stephen Gran
must undo any effects that the build and binary targets may have had, except that it should leave alone any output files created in the parent directory by a run of a binary target. We already have this rule, and it is a must directive already. -- ----

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Otavio Salvador said: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This one time, at band camp, Otavio Salvador said: > > > >> Why RM team wouldn't use it to meet the deadline and reducing the > >> overall quality of

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-26 Thread Stephen Gran
iant, there wouldn't be a need for this discussion. If you want a higher quality releasse than the one we as maintainers are likely to produce, then get out there and do some NMUs. -- - |

Re: Bug#374029: Fixing inconsisten and unusefull Build-Depends/Conflicts definition

2006-06-21 Thread Stephen Gran
in fact conform to policy, how about making it do the > right thing? Go for it. -- - | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#374029: Fixing inconsisten and unusefull Build-Depends/Conflicts definition

2006-06-20 Thread Stephen Gran
circular rather quickly. It might be more helpful to know why sbuild explicitly does it this way, see if a change is feasible, and then work towards making it policy, rather than using policy as a stick. -- ----- |

Re: Policy 3.7.0 - /usr/lib/cgi-{bin|lib}

2006-05-03 Thread Stephen Gran
tes I administer, I disable direct access to /usr/lib/cgi-bin, precisely because I don't like newly installed but unconfigured packages being web accessable. So, we now have 135 RC bugs, plus one more for each noncompliant httpd. Oh, well. -- -------

Re: Bug#361137: [PROPOSAL] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if available, mandatory

2006-04-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joey Hess said: > Seconded once more. That would be thirded, wouldn't it? I'll fourth it. -- - | ,''`.

Bug#212034: Debian Perl Policy manual uses "dependency" backwards

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Gran
a dependency OF the U.S. - the prepositional choice changes the relational precedence. -- --------- | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :

Bug#203145: debian-policy: Scant documentation of Uploaders: field

2003-07-27 Thread Stephen Gran
s/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-collaborative-maint HTH, -- - | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `&#x