Bug#569174: debian-policy: Changelog date is not in RFC822 format.

2010-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 Severity: normal Hello everybody, in Policy § 4.4, one can read: “The date must be in RFC822 format”. However, RFC822 dates use only two numbers for the years. The phrase should probably refer to another standard, like RFC 2822 or posterior, in which years

Bug#569219: Document transitional and meta-packages

2010-02-10 Thread Luca Falavigna
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch We have several meta-packages and transitional packages in the archive, some of them do not document that anywhere in their description. Users should be given such an information, so they can decide to remove some to sa