Re: binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-10-16 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:01:08 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:11:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > > > The documentation for this probably belongs in debian-policy; current > > > versions of policy seem to ment

Bug#392362: [PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages

2006-10-16 Thread Chris Waters
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:13:11PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:57:47AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > I don't know if it can always be avoided. > [snip lots of good examples where this is unavoidable] > > I would go for strongly discouraging the practice, but I think t

Re: Bug#392362: [PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages

2006-10-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Chris Waters wrote: > "Should not" says that it's always a bug--just not an RC bug. I'm > saying that perhaps sometimes it's not a bug. Although I strongly > agree that it should _usually_ be a bug. I really can't imagine when it would not be a bug; in some cases, it may just