Russ Allbery (01/06/2010):
> + Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
> + the source will build an architecture-dependent package on
> + the union of the lists of architectures from the expansion
> + of each specified architecture wildcard, and w
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:47:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs
> described by this paragraph (§4.4 in Policy 3.8.4) use four digits. This patch
> replaces the RFC 822 by its latest evolution, RFC 5322, that specifies a date
>
On 02.06.2010 14:59, Bill Allombert wrote:
What is the diffrence between RFC5322 and RFC2822 time format ?
RFC 5322 was only released in 2008, so the standard that packages
actually follow is clearly RFC2822.
I would prefer if we keep a reference to RFC2822 because is is
more well known than RF
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Jakub Wilk writes:
> According to upgrading-checklist, support for alternative changelog
> formats were removed in Debian Policy 3.8.1.0. However, appendix C still
> documents their usage:
> $ zgrep -A4 'alternative changelog'
> /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz C.2.2.1. Defining altern
Raphael Geissert writes:
> The second footnote reads:
>> [2] Ordinary files installed by `dpkg' (as opposed to `conffile's and
>> other similar objects) normally have their permissions reset to the
>> distributed permissions when the package is reinstalled. However, the
>> use of
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Lars Wirzenius writes:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-perl.html
> says in section 2.2 (Base Package):
> As Perl is currently used by such things as update-alternatives and
> some package maintainer scripts, it must be priority required and
> marked as
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Osamu Aoki writes:
> The list of all sections is defined in policy:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections
> As for descriptions of each of those, you could use:
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/
> But there are 2 additional entries in the second list
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Cyril Brulebois writes:
> Russ Allbery (01/06/2010):
>> +Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
>> +the source will build an architecture-dependent package on
>> +the union of the lists of architectures from the expansion
>> +of each specified
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes:
> There are some differences (usually backward compatible). The main
> difference I see is: RFC 5322 doesn't permit comments before and after
> month name, so really an insignificant change for Debian.
> OTOH we don'twant to have the full range of options, e.g. th
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:42:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here is proposed wording, which hopefully reflects the subsequent
> discussion. I'm looking for seconds.
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index d16df70..1871d4c 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -6011,7 +601
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:59 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:47:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs
> > described by this paragraph (§4.4 in Policy 3.8.4) use four digits. This
> > patch
> > replaces
I thing that this issue became more serious with the lintian-based
automatic rejection of incoming packages.
Some days ago an upload (illuminator_0.11.0-4_amd64.changes) got rejected
because of this pending issue.
(from the reject mail)
> Reject Reasons:
> illuminator source: lintian output: 'uplo
Riccardo Stagni writes:
> I thing that this issue became more serious with the lintian-based
> automatic rejection of incoming packages.
> Some days ago an upload (illuminator_0.11.0-4_amd64.changes) got rejected
> because of this pending issue.
> (from the reject mail)
>> Reject Reasons:
>> ill
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:24:22PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I thought we established the last time around on this discussion that Adam
> needs to leave the comma off in his name for the time being.
I wasn't aware of this, reading the bug report it looked to me that the
discussion was stopped a
Riccardo Stagni writes:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:24:22PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I thought we established the last time around on this discussion that Adam
>> needs to leave the comma off in his name for the time being.
> I wasn't aware of this, reading the bug report it looked to me t
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:28:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava writes:
> > +
> > + Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
> > +the source will build an architecture-dependent package on
> > +the union of the lists of archite
This is a dup of bug 499167.
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Bug#499167: developers-reference: please explain deb/debian/ds suffixes in
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Bug#560287: debian-policy: document dfsg, ds and debian suffix of version
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> thanks
Stopping p
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:24 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Riccardo Stagni writes:
>
> > I thing that this issue became more serious with the lintian-based
> > automatic rejection of incoming packages.
> > Some days ago an upload (illuminator_0.11.0-4_amd64.changes) got rejected
> > because of this
Adam C Powell IV writes:
> On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:24 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I thought we established the last time around on this discussion that
>> Adam needs to leave the comma off in his name for the time being.
> I don't remember receiving this advice.
Ack, sorry. Apologies for no
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 00:06:39 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:28:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Manoj Srivastava writes:
> > > +
> > > + Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
> > > +the source will build an architecture-dep
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