* Russ Allbery [Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:07:36 -0800]:
> It occurred to me to check behavior with multiline fields as well. Here's
> a slightly modified version documenting that. Does this still look good
> to you? (And also requesting seconds from others.)
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
>
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 22:07:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Julien Cristau writes:
>
> > meh. forgot to actually send this to the bug.
>
> Thank you!
>
> It occurred to me to check behavior with multiline fields as well. Here's
> a slightly modified version documenting that. Does this stil
On 2009-02-27 Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:42:39PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
[...]
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00381.html with the best
>> choice appearantly being <87ve1faria@frosties.localdomain> which
>> proposes that exim4 should provide de
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:55:23PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> We could have a exim4 upload implementing in sid this rather quickly
> after receiving a go.
In general I much prefer a virtual package over a real one but I think
we should wait a bit until the following issues are clarified:
On
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 22:07:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -2450,6 +2450,14 @@ Package: libc6
> See for details.
>
>
> +
> + In addition to the control file syntax described + id="controlsyntax">above, this fi
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:25:38PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote:
> ... if apt would try to solve a dependency on the virtual package
> default-mta provided by exim4 and exim5 it would ... choose to install
> exim4 in the described case ...
In case of a virtual default-mta package, the existence of
a t
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:55:23PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Hello,
> [exim4 hat on]
> Neither me nor Marc could come up with obvious problems in the
> proposal. I doubt this is an importartant data point, though. I do
> not think I am exceptionally qualified to find any problems (if
> they
Hi,
On Sonntag, 1. März 2009, Carsten Hey wrote:
> In my opinion it is a way better practise to first update the policy and
> then adapt n packages instead of first change them in a way which is
> possibly against the policy and expect the policy to be updated
> accordingly.
There is nothing _aga
Hi,
On Sonntag, 1. März 2009, Carsten Hey wrote:
> And using stable and testing repositories together, e.g. during
> dist-upgrades, will be forbidden? If not, it can't be avoided.
So what? It's not supported and the user has to fix manually. No big deal.
regards,
Holger
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Am 2009-02-27 19:34:04, schrieb Bill Allombert:
> Well there were some problems with popularity-contest, see bug #326593
> IIRC for sending to both f...@example.com and b...@example.com:
> ssmtp allows
> sendmail -oi f...@example.com,b...@example.com
> but not courrier-mta which want
> sendmail
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
> user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org
Setting user to debian-pol...@packages.debian.org (was r...@debian.org).
> package debian-policy
Ignoring bugs not assigned to: debian-policy
> tags 446712 pending
Bug#446712: Document comments are permitted
Adeodato Simó writes:
> Seconded, with or without:
>
>> + comment lines starting with #
> preceded by no whitespace.
>
> Or some wording to that effect. The rationale is that it's very common
> for files that accept #-style comments to accept them if # is preceded
> by whitesp
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
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