Bug#845255: debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications

2017-08-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, As promised, I send the converted dbapp-policy documentation to this bug. Credits go to Osamu, any bug is mine. Paul http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"; [ ]> Best practices for packaging database applications Sean Finney This draft describes a set of g

Bug#845255: debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications

2017-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Gevers writes: > It has been a while since the first version of the "Best practices for > packaging database applications" was drafted by Sean Finney as the > creator of dbconfig-common. The discussion on the document has died down > a long time ago, but as the new (since last year) maintain

Bug#845255: debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications

2017-07-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Mathias, On 23-07-17 18:25, Mathias Behrle wrote: > As the bug title says, those recommendations are best practices and for me > there > is no need to put them into policy. There is lots of best practices in policy. It is written as "xyz *should* abc". > There can always be good reasons to n

Bug#845255: debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications

2017-07-23 Thread Mathias Behrle
Hi Paul, sorry for the late answer, but better late than never... As the bug title says, those recommendations are best practices and for me there is no need to put them into policy. There can always be good reasons to not use dbconfig-common at all (it just can't be as flexible as required to me

Bug#845255: debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications

2017-05-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 09:44:44PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi all, > > I hate to ping bugs, but is there anything I can do to help this move > forward? (The policy 4.0.0 release reminded me of this bug). You should ask database applications maintainers to second this proposal. Cheers, -- Bi

Bug#845255: debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications

2017-05-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, I hate to ping bugs, but is there anything I can do to help this move forward? (The policy 4.0.0 release reminded me of this bug). On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:17:55 +0100 Paul Gevers wrote: > It has been a while since the first version of the "Best practices for > packaging database applicati

Bug#845255: debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications

2016-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 It has been a while since the first version of the "Best practices for packaging database applications" was drafted by Sean Finney as the creator of dbconfig-common. The discussion on the document has died dow