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Niels Thykier writes:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:58:06 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Everyone seemed generally happy with this text, but it never clearly got
>> enough seconds to apply. Here's an updated patch so that we can take
>> another run at getting enough seconds
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Bug #640263 [debian-policy] Clarify 9.9 - Environment variables
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:58:06 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote:
> Russ Allbery writes:
>
> > Looking at this section, there are several issues. One is the issue
> > addressed above, and I like Jonathan's wording for that. Another is the
> > one Colin mentioned earlier: this only applies to programs ins
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 at 14:58:06 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Everyone seemed generally happy with this text, but it never clearly got
> enough seconds to apply. Here's an updated patch so that we can take
> another run at getting enough seconds and getting it merged.
I second the patch quoted bel
Russ Allbery writes:
> Looking at this section, there are several issues. One is the issue
> addressed above, and I like Jonathan's wording for that. Another is the
> one Colin mentioned earlier: this only applies to programs installed in
> the system path. (I considered saying programs intend
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 02:38:37AM +0100, Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> > What happened to this proposal? Does it need attention from any
> > particular affected audience (maybe the base-files maintainer or
> > people familiar with the syste
Le Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 02:38:37AM +0100, Carl Fürstenberg a écrit :
>
> Seems nothing has happened last year and a half :/
> While I feel the clarification in the bug replies are sufficient, I would
> think it would be good to have the patch applied.
Hello everybody,
note that in the meantime,
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> What happened to this proposal? Does it need attention from any
> particular affected audience (maybe the base-files maintainer or
> people familiar with the system initialization process)?
>
Seems nothing has happened last year and a hal
Hi,
Russ Allbery wrote:
> I propose the attached patch to address all of those issues. Seconds or
> further discussion?
[...]
> policy.sgml | 24 ++--
> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
What happened to this proposal? Does it need attention from any
par
Russ Allbery wrote:
> I propose the attached patch to address all of those issues. Seconds or
> further discussion?
Looks good to me. (Well, one nit: the log message says
custom environment variables (not, say, PATH)
where I think the intent is something like
custom environme
Jonathan Nieder writes:
> Colin Watson wrote:
>> --- a/policy.sgml
>> +++ b/policy.sgml
>> @@ -7449,8 +7449,8 @@ Reloading description configuration...done.
>> Environment variables
>>
>>
>> - A program must not depend on environment variables to get
>> - reasonable default
Colin Watson wrote:
> Yes. How about:
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index bb424ed..3a8bd90 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -7449,8 +7449,8 @@ Reloading description configuration...done.
> Environment variables
>
>
> - A program must not depe
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 01:08:42PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
> > Per resolution of bug #639997 I would like to ask for clarification of
> > section 9.9 in the polcy regarding environmental variables, and if it
> > implicitly excludes "global" environmental variables li
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> See /usr/bin/iceweasel for an example
Scratch that --- iceweasel can be run directly nowadays as
"/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin". I should have said "see pre-2010
mozilla for an example involving LD_LIBRARY_PATH".
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552864
Ha
Hi Carl,
Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
> Per resolution of bug #639997 I would like to ask for clarification of
> section 9.9 in the polcy regarding environmental variables, and if it
> implicitly excludes "global" environmental variables like PATH, or if
> all programs must include themself a sensible
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.2.0
Severity: normal
Per resolution of bug #639997 I would like to ask for clarification of
section 9.9 in the polcy regarding environmental variables, and if it
implicitly excludes "global" environmental variables like PATH, or if
all programs must include them
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