Bug#530378: debian-policy: allow /usr/share/doc/ to point to another indirectly-depended-upon package's dir

2009-05-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 25 May 2009, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 06:10:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I guess I'm not understanding why you don't just make bogofilter depend > > on bogofilter-common as well. What's the drawback? > > None really, but it would seem as if we're making

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

2009-05-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 18:50:42 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > @@ -2723,7 +2725,8 @@ Package: libc6 > In the main debian/control file in the source > package, or in the source package control file > .dsc, one may specify a list of architectures > - separated by

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

2009-05-27 Thread Andres Mejia
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 06:51:58 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 18:50:42 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > > @@ -2723,7 +2725,8 @@ Package: libc6 > > In the main debian/control file in the source > > package, or in the source package control file > > .dsc, one m

Re: Architecture in *.dsc files

2009-05-27 Thread Andres Mejia
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 00:04:19 Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Yu writes: > > This is probably a stupid question, but... > > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Currently, Policy's description of Architecture includes the statement: > >> > >>In the main debian/con

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

2009-05-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:30:57 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 06:51:58 Julien Cristau wrote: > > This makes it sound like you can't mix architecture names and > > architecture wildcards. Is that on purpose? > > Current policy has this wording and I didn't want to change

Re: Architecture in *.dsc files

2009-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Andres Mejia writes: > Perhaps inclusive 'or' is meant here. That's the impression I get from > reading this. > Perhaps a footnote saying "Here 'or' is meant inclusively" should be > added. Well, but that doesn't answer the more fundamental question. What does an Architecture field like:

Re: Architecture in *.dsc files

2009-05-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 11:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Well, but that doesn't answer the more fundamental question. What does > an Architecture field like: > > i386 amd64 all > > in a *.dsc file mean? Currently, Policy is silent here. That the binary packages referenced by the .dsc file

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

2009-05-27 Thread Andres Mejia
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 07:49:09 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:30:57 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 06:51:58 Julien Cristau wrote: > > > This makes it sound like you can't mix architecture names and > > > architecture wildcards. Is that on purpose? >

Re: Architecture in *.dsc files

2009-05-27 Thread Andres Mejia
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 14:19:02 Russ Allbery wrote: > Andres Mejia writes: > > Perhaps inclusive 'or' is meant here. That's the impression I get from > > reading this. > > > > Perhaps a footnote saying "Here 'or' is meant inclusively" should be > > added. > > Well, but that doesn't answer the mo

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:33 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > > > > > > Current policy has this wording and I didn't want to change that, so > > > yes, it's on purpose. > > > > Not quite. Current policy says "arch list or 'any' or 'all'" and that's > > fine (at least for debian/control), because it wou

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

2009-05-27 Thread Andres Mejia
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:22:19 Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:33 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > > > > Current policy has this wording and I didn't want to change that, so > > > > yes, it's on purpose. > > > > > > Not quite. Current policy says "arch list or 'any' or 'all'" and

Re: Architecture in *.dsc files

2009-05-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andres Mejia writes: > > > Perhaps inclusive 'or' is meant here. That's the impression I get from > > reading this. > > > Perhaps a footnote saying "Here 'or' is meant inclusively" should be > > added. > > Well, but that doesn't answer the more fundame