Bug#1020323: debian-policy: document DPKG_ROOT

2022-10-10 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Helmut Grohne (2022-10-05 20:08:19) > I think this text is already quite good. I am yet wondering about the scope > of support that we mention here. > > 1. You write that we want essential + build-essential. In practice, we >also want things such as apt or systemd. I am wondering

Bug#1020323: debian-policy: document DPKG_ROOT

2022-10-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Joshannes, On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: >To enable creating a foreign architecture Debian chroot during the early >bootstrap of a new Debian architecture, maintainer scripts and utilities >called by maintainer scripts of packages

Bug#1020323: debian-policy: document DPKG_ROOT

2022-10-05 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Russ, thank you for your explanations, things are quite a bit clearer now. Quoting Russ Allbery (2022-09-20 05:47:45) > The point of putting this in Policy is to provide guidance to the > packagers, not to the bootstrappers. Presumably you already have other > documentation that you maintain

Bug#1020323: debian-policy: document DPKG_ROOT

2022-09-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: > * where to document this? Other variables set for maintainer scripts >like DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE or DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH do not seem to >be documented either even though (according to codesearch.d.n) they >are used in hundreds of places

Bug#1020323: debian-policy: document DPKG_ROOT

2022-09-19 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Source: debian-policy Version: 4.6.1.1 Severity: wishlist User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: dpkg-root-support X-Debbugs-Cc: jo...@debian.org, debian-cr...@lists.debian.org Hi, in [1] Russ asked us to submit a policy bug about DPKG_ROOT so here it goes. :) [1] https://lists.debian.org/