Re: Active policy editor

2017-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Lamb writes: > Alas, delegating, etc. is the easy part. In terms of recruiting, have > you considered: > * Emailing the debian-devel-announce list along the lines of "The >Debian Policy team needs your help"? A generous description of >a) the responsibilites, b) an encouragement t

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Antonio Terceiro writes: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 05:50:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think Debian Policy 4.0.0.0 is ready for release. > One thing I was always curious about: is there a reason to use such a > deep versioning scheme? > A shorter version number would make package maintai

Re: [policy] 02/02: Clean up upgrading-checklist, bump version number

2017-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Guillem Jover writes: >> I don't think that it did, I tried very hard to preserve all IDs as >> they were. I guess you might have gotten confused perhaps, because the >> script mapped IDs in upgrading-checklist from [0-9]* to s-[0-9]*, but >> that used to be done implicitl

Re: [policy] 02/02: Clean up upgrading-checklist, bump version number

2017-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.xml b/upgrading-checklist.xml > index ec17af8..83e7c75 100644 > --- a/upgrading-checklist.xml > +++ b/upgrading-checklist.xml > […] > @@ -1438,11 +1449,11 @@ > > > > - > -Version 3.8.4.0 > + > +Version 3.8.4 > >