Bug#707077: marked as done (obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/)

2013-10-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 28 Oct 2013 01:18:26 + with message-id and subject line Bug#707077: fixed in debian-policy 3.9.5.0 has caused the Debian Bug report #707077, regarding obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/ to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt

Bug#707077: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-10-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:27:06PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > --- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml > > +++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml > > @@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ Unreleased. > > 9.1.1.8 > >The exception to the FHS for the /selinux was removed. > > > > +10.7.3 > >

Bug#707077: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-10-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: > --- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml > +++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml > @@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ Unreleased. > 9.1.1.8 >The exception to the FHS for the /selinux was removed. > > +10.7.3 > + During package upgrades, the removal of obsolete configuration files > + without loc

Bug#707077: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-10-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:20:42AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:07:29PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > >> On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 15:18 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > >>> In policy section 10.7.3 Behavior, there is this sentence: > >>> > >>>

Bug#707077: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-10-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:07:29PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : >> On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 15:18 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>> In policy section 10.7.3 Behavior, there is this sentence: >>> >>> Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be >>> removed

Bug#707077: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-10-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:07:29PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 15:18 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > In policy section 10.7.3 Behavior, there is this sentence: > > > > Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be > > removed by the package during

Re: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 15:18 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > In policy section 10.7.3 Behavior, there is this sentence: > > Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be > removed by the package during upgrade. > > I would like to suggest that "may" be replaced with "should"

Bug#707077: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-05-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Le Mon, May 06, 2013 at 06:09:48PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete | wc -l > 8 > > On a machine that has been running for a few years with apt pinned to > experimental (then sid, testing), there are 59:

Re: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 17:12 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > do we have an estimate (via piuparts ?) on how many packages are > failing to do that? piuparts does test for this, some stats: sid2experimental 23 testing2sid 12 squeeze2wheezy 209 squeeze2bpo2wheezy 36 lenny2squeeze 47 http://anonscm.

Re: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-05-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 15:18:04 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > In policy section 10.7.3 Behavior, there is this sentence: > > Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be > removed by the package during upgrade. > > I would like to suggest that "may" be replaced with "

Re: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-05-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 06, 2013 at 03:18:04PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > In policy section 10.7.3 Behavior, there is this sentence: > > Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be > removed by the package during upgrade. > > I would like to suggest that "may" be replaced w

obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Wise
In policy section 10.7.3 Behavior, there is this sentence: Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be removed by the package during upgrade. I would like to suggest that "may" be replaced with "should". -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc