Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.6.2.0
Severity: minor
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While reading the policy in HTML rendered form I noticed a minor
formatting typo/bug which can be corrected as follows:
diff --git a/policy/ch-files.rst b/policy/ch-files.rst
index b34c183..76
Hello,
On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 05:09PM +01, Max-Julian Pogner wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> as requested, i filed the bug report.
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031403
>
> a patch is attached.
>
> because of the large number of existing bugs against the 'debian-policy'
> package, i am n
Hallo,
as requested, i filed the bug report.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031403
a patch is attached.
because of the large number of existing bugs against the 'debian-policy'
package, i am not 100% sure a similar bug did not already exist.
However, i could not find any e
Hello,
On Wed 15 Feb 2023 at 01:46PM +01, Max-Julian Pogner wrote:
> there's a small typo in file policy/ap-pkg-diversions.rst list 53
> (salsa link:
> https://salsa.debian.org/dbnpolicy/policy/-/blob/3cfbd29f3d412894b275fbb98624d3e7d8f9dd4c/policy/ap-pkg-diversions.rst?plain=1#L53
> )
>
> The li
Hi there,
there's a small typo in file policy/ap-pkg-diversions.rst list 53
(salsa link:
https://salsa.debian.org/dbnpolicy/policy/-/blob/3cfbd29f3d412894b275fbb98624d3e7d8f9dd4c/policy/ap-pkg-diversions.rst?plain=1#L53
)
The line currently reads
> if [ remove = "$1" -o abort-install = "$1"
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Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:46:05PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
>> The "http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-scope.html"; page have
>> next phrase: "The actual editing is done by a group of maintainers that
>> have _n
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:46:05PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
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> Hello all.
>
> The "http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-scope.html"; page have
> next phrase: "The actual editing is done by a group of maintainers that
> have _no_ ed
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Hello all.
The "http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-scope.html"; page have
next phrase: "The actual editing is done by a group of maintainers that
have _no_ editorial powers". May be, "have editorial powers"? Or I am
not undestood it :)
-BE
.
* Revert the cgi-lib change.
* Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
ebian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda(Closes: #365356).
* Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
*
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.0.0
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The latest version of Debian Policy introduced the following sentence:
> Line breaks in an Uploaders field that spans multiple lines are not
> significant and the semantic meaning of the field is the same as if the
> line breaks
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2.2
Severity: minor
In http://localhost/doc/debian-policy/policy-process.html/ch1.html#s1.1
I see "1.1 Guideliens for policy change proposals", the first word
should be "Guidelines".
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:41:58AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Correct; "conffile" is a technical term (it means something which
> appears in debian/conffiles) and appears in ..., the 's' is a
> plural ending added on. I'm not sure if this is correct usage or not;
> if there is any concensus, I'
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it is not really a typo, under 6.6 it reads:
>
> When we configure a package (this happens with dpkg --install and dpkg
> --configure), we first update any conffiles and then call:
>
Hi,
it is not really a typo, under 6.6 it reads:
When we configure a package (this happens with dpkg --install and dpkg
--configure), we first update any conffiles and then call:
^
The marked 's' (in conffiles) is not in the and therefore
appearing in n
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.0.0
Severity: minor
flush out old proposal after a a suuficiently long period of time
There should be one 'u' and two 'f's in sufficiently.
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2.3.8:
You should not use dpkg-divert' on
either a ' is missing or the one that is there should not be.
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footnotes.html:Having a separate package allows one to nistall
^^^
should be install
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Package: debian-policy
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In section 1.1, the description of the guideline weight implied by
different terms contains an extra, unmatched '>'. The appended patch
gets rid of it.
Matt
--- policy.sgml.origTue Nov 21 10:41:49 2000
+++ policy.sgml Tue Nov 21 10:41:43 2000
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On 2830T184956-0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:51:47PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
>
> > The definition is the following:
> >
> > It is not be necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships
> > on a
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Subject: Typo in policy manual (>Free)
From: K
Package: debian-policy
Version: 2.5.0.0
There is a spurious ">" in section 2.1.1 (The Debian Free Software
Guidelines):
>Free Redistribution
This looks like a key bounce:
$ zgrep '>>' policy.sgml.gz
>Free Redistribution
Kirk Hilliard
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