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On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 2:33 PM Russ Allbery wrote:
> Guillem Jover writes:
>
> > Seems I missed another file:
>
> > * .changes:
> > policy → «upload control file» / «Debian changes file»
> > dpkg → «upload control fi
Guillem Jover writes:
> Seems I missed another file:
> * .changes:
> policy → «upload control file» / «Debian changes file»
> dpkg → «upload control file» / «.changes control file» /
> «Debian .changes file» / «Debian changes file»
[...]
> For changes I think something
Guillem Jover writes:
> Ok, I've prepared the attached incremental patch, which only switches
> from paragraph(s) to stanza(s) all over the place.
Thanks, applied.
> I've updated all the specs for consistency. I've updated the footnote to
> swap the preference and to mention paragraph is now di
Hi!
On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 17:34:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sean Whitton writes:
> > On Mon 19 Sep 2022 at 12:45AM +02, Guillem Jover wrote:
> >> So, personally, I'd be happy to fully switch to stanza TBH, because it
> >> seems more specific to our use, probably easier to search for, and
> >>
Hello,
On Sun 18 Sep 2022 at 05:34PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sean Whitton writes:
>> On Mon 19 Sep 2022 at 12:45AM +02, Guillem Jover wrote:
>
>>> So, personally, I'd be happy to fully switch to stanza TBH, because it
>>> seems more specific to our use, probably easier to search for, and
>>>
Guillem Jover writes:
> I've been considering naming debian/control something like
> «Debian template source package control file», as that is used to
> generate both the source and binary control files. And always
> prefixing with Debian, so that would end up as:
> * debian/control: «Debian s
Sean Whitton writes:
> On Mon 19 Sep 2022 at 12:45AM +02, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> So, personally, I'd be happy to fully switch to stanza TBH, because it
>> seems more specific to our use, probably easier to search for, and
>> it's shorter.
> I think this is fine for Policy to do.
I vote for swi
Hello,
On Mon 19 Sep 2022 at 12:45AM +02, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I went for paragraph, because dpkg has some instances of it already in
> docs and code (and stanza only in code), and mainly because the Debian
> policy uses almost exclusively paragraph for this with a single
> mention of "stanza"
On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 14:53:30 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sun 18 Sep 2022 at 10:28PM +02, Guillem Jover wrote:
>
> > So, how does «source package paragraph» and «binary package paragraph»
> > (of the «template control file») sound instead?
>
> Can we standardise on 'stanza', please?
>
> I th
Hello,
On Sun 18 Sep 2022 at 10:28PM +02, Guillem Jover wrote:
> So, how does «source package paragraph» and «binary package paragraph»
> (of the «template control file») sound instead?
Can we standardise on 'stanza', please?
I thought that was already standard, and "paragraph" is for prose.
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.6.1.1
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
This is a followup from my comment at:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998165#43
To summarize, we have IMO confusing naming and nomenclature for the
various control files and paragraphs/stanzas, and this is even
con
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