Bug#865713: less: Prints UTF-8 Byte order mark

2017-07-14 Thread Paul Hardy
Control: tags 473227 + fixed-upstream The "less" upstream maintainer, Mark Nudelman, has just emailed me saying that he believes he has fixed this bug in less version 504, just released. See http://greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-504.tar.gz Russ: if this upstream release is uploaded to Debian,

Bug#630578: marked as done (debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field)

2017-07-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:14:15 -0700 with message-id <20170714231415.6jr42cdvj6cdy...@iris.silentflame.com> and subject line Re: Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field has caused the Debian Bug report #630578, regarding debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders fi

Bug#798476: debian-policy: don't require Uploaders

2017-07-14 Thread Sean Whitton
On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 05:36:22PM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > I also want to see this. It makes lots of sense, especially for > teams maintaining very large numbers of packages. Honestly, the > individual package does not carry heavy weight in some of those > teams. At the same time, ma

Bug#678607: debian-policy: "original authors" in 12.5 is unclear

2017-07-14 Thread Sean Whitton
I would like to see this bug fixed because there can be no doubt that the 'original' in "original authors" is ambiguous. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 07:50:41PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Here's a strawman illustrating what I think the sentence meant to say. > [...] I'm not sure why Jonathan thin

Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, limit package to debian-policy, usertagging 678607 ...

2017-07-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org Setting user to debian-pol...@packages.debian.org (was spwhit...@spwhitton.name). > limit package debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currentl

Bug#678607: debian-policy: "original authors" in 12.5 is unclear

2017-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > I'm not sure why Jonathan thinks his patch is a strawman. It addresses > the main issue of this bug. I don't think the explanation of what an > upstream contact is needs to be relegated to a footnote. So I am > seeking seconds for the following patch, which uses Jonathan