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

2017-07-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 04:33:49PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > ... if the Maintainer control field names a group of people and a > shared email address, the Uploaders field must be present and must > contain at least one human with their personal email address. An > exception is m

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

2017-07-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Bill, On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 02:48:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > The problem is that the majority of such documentation is outdated and > obsolete to the point of being useless. > Most team start big and then slowly falter until they are reduced to > a single member (because it is eas

Re: Proposal: move forward to Sphinx

2017-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Hideki Yamane writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> The approach that Guillem took with the DocBook conversion is to tune a >> script that did all the conversions until it could handle all of the >> documents, and then we were able to do that conversion all at once in >> one release. That's ideal, b

Bug#845255: Inclusion of best practices for packaging database applications in Debian policy

2017-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, On 06/25/17 16:05, Paul Gevers wrote: > This e-mail is meant for maintainers of applications that use databases > and for those of you that are interested in how packages should handle > those. > > In bug 845255ยน I started the discussion for inclusion of the "best > practices for packaging

Bug#868496: debian-policy: Please Clarify Need for update-fonts-dir in postinst and postrm Scripts

2017-07-15 Thread Paul Hardy
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.0.0.4 Severity: minor -- The Debian Policy Manual, Section 11.8.5, "Packages providing fonts", states in item 12: "Font packages must invoke update-fonts-dir on each directory into which they install fonts. This invocation must occur in both the postinst (for a

Bug#868497: debian-policy: Signed .dsc Files

2017-07-15 Thread Paul Hardy
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.0.0.4 Severity: wishlist -- Debian Policy Manual, Section 5.4, "Debian source control files - .dsc", states in the first sentence: "This file consists of a single paragraph, possibly surrounded by a PGP signature." This does not state whether someone who is cre