Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:16:14PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:39:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Currently, aiui, lintian uses E: for problems that it's sure are mistakes, > > and W: for problems that it's only guessing are mistakes. I think that > > divisio

Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Joey Hess
Adrian Bunk wrote: > And more serious: If you want to force the upgrade of the standards > version you must file 579 RC bugs on these packages. I would be happy to do that to tell the truth, if it meant we got half of them updated to current standards before the freeze. (I had pretty good luck wi

Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > And more serious: If you want to force the upgrade of the standards > > version you must file 579 RC bugs on these packages. > > I would be happy to do that to tell the truth, if it meant we got half > of them updated to current standards before the freeze

Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:27:40PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > I file any bugs I detect, once I get lintian running on the archive, old > > packages beware (-: > > > > A package of 2.x policy behaves in a way different than current packages. >

Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:31:30AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Reading the rest of the thread, I sense there's a consnsensus that it'd be > ok to file such bugs if they weren't rc, at least. So 578 priority > normal bugs coming right up unless someone tells me otherwise. I'm sure you've got a better

Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:07:01AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:27:40PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Sure, but lacking /usr/share/doc is, aiui, a non-RC issue as it stands > > (since there seems to be some sort of dead

Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Sure, but lacking /usr/share/doc is, aiui, a non-RC issue as it stands > > > (since there seems to be some sort of deadlock in working out what to do > > > about it)... > > In a message sent in this thread only a good hour before this mail you > > sa

Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
>> >> no, it tries to do this based on 2.x level MUST/SHOULD and the authors >> beliefs >> of severity. Has nothing to do with the sureness of the test. > > When did this change, then? Christian and I designed it the way Anthony > described it. > Gecko did some, new checks added between him a

Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Error (E:) -- violate a MUST > Warning (W:) -- violate a SHOULD > XXX (?:) -- a MAY is not followed There should be no Lintian messages regarding MAY items. If any such thing is considered to warrant a Lintian Warning or Error message

Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Feb-2001 Bob Hilliard wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Error (E:) -- violate a MUST >> Warning (W:) -- violate a SHOULD >> XXX (?:) -- a MAY is not followed > > There should be no Lintian messages regarding MAY items. If any > such thing is conside

when were Build-Depends placed in policy?

2001-02-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I can not find anything in the checklist about Build-Depends. I have been told it was 3.2.x, is this accurate?

Re: when were Build-Depends placed in policy?

2001-02-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can not find anything in the checklist about Build-Depends. I have > been told it was 3.2.x, is this accurate? 3.1.0.0 according to the changelog. -- Marcelo

Re: when were Build-Depends placed in policy?

2001-02-21 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:45:02PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can not find anything in the checklist about Build-Depends. I have > > been told it was 3.2.x, is this accurate? > > 3.1.0.0 according to the changelog. I might c

CVS jdg: Clarified upgrading-checklist note about source dependencies

2001-02-21 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: jdg Wed Feb 21 15:58:20 PST 2001 Modified files: . : upgrading-checklist.html Log message: Clarified upgrading-checklist note about source dependencies

Bug#40706: marked as done ([REJECTED 21/7/99] /usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc transition)

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Bug#40864: marked as done (debian-policy: Section 5.8 refers to /usr/doc/package)

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Bug#42477: marked as done ([OLD PROPOSAL] delay the /usr/doc transition till after potato)

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Bug#62070: marked as done (Package freeze makes no sense for package)

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Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 04:31:39PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The best check for the /usr/doc/foo -> /usr/share/doc/foo transition is to > check for the standards version. If we want to finish this transition for > woody someone has to: > - file RC bugs for standards version < 3.0 > - later check