Debian Policy 3.8.1 released

2009-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
I've just uploaded Debian Policy 3.8.1 with the first round of Policy changes for the squeeze development cycle. The next time you upload a package, please check it against the new version of Policy and update Standards-Version in debian/control accordingly. There is no need to make a new u

Re: Policy 3.8.1

2009-03-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > I think it's time (really, probably past time) for the 3.8.1 upload. > There's still some stuff in flight, but that's always going to be true, > and a lot of bugs are already fixed in Git. > > My intention is to upload 3.8.1 next weekend, which will hopefully give > me time

Re: Policy 3.8.1

2009-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > Maybe a policy release (i.e. in annonce or devel news) should recommend > not to do bumping only uploads. I can mention it in the release announcement. I usually upload all of my packages at least once per release cycle whether they need it or not, to move to ne

Re: Policy 3.8.1

2009-03-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Julien Cristau wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 17:14:20 +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: But in this manner there is a risk of unneeded upload, in order to increase policy version or to remove warning from lintian about old policy. I think to much upload could confuse also the developers. If

Re: Policy 3.8.1

2009-03-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 17:14:20 +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > But in this manner there is a risk of unneeded upload, in order to > increase policy version or to remove warning from lintian about old policy. > I think to much upload could confuse also the developers. > If the only reason fo

Re: Policy 3.8.1

2009-03-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Bill Allombert wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:54:25PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I think it's time (really, probably past time) for the 3.8.1 upload. There's still some stuff in flight, but that's always going to be true, and a lot of bugs are already fixed in Git. My intention is to upload

Re: Policy 3.8.1

2009-03-02 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:54:25PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think it's time (really, probably past time) for the 3.8.1 upload. > There's still some stuff in flight, but that's always going to be true, > and a lot of bugs are already fixed in Git. > > My intention is to upload 3.8.1 next week

Policy 3.8.1

2009-03-01 Thread Russ Allbery
I think it's time (really, probably past time) for the 3.8.1 upload. There's still some stuff in flight, but that's always going to be true, and a lot of bugs are already fixed in Git. My intention is to upload 3.8.1 next weekend, which will hopefully give me time to prepare a corresponding Lintia