Bug#994008: debian-policy: Clarify relationship between source and binary packages' archive areas

2021-11-01 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 10:51:44AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Here are some updated patches for Policy, incorporating this requirement. thanks for your work on this, Simon. > I have not attempted to incorporate the corner case involving > build-profiles. I think if we were going to do that,

Bug#998282: Please make Section a required field for the source paragraph in d/control

2021-11-01 Thread Felix Lechner
Package: debian-policy Hi, The installable stanzas in d/control (called "binary package paragraphs" in policy) inherit the Section field from the source paragraph. There is no reason to provide inheritance the other way around. Also, sources may not build successfully on all architectures. Peopl

Bug#998165: debian-policy: document and allow Description in the source paragraph

2021-11-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 31 Oct 2021 at 11:18AM +01, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version 4.6.0.0 > > Hi! > > dpkg 1.19.0 introduced, following the request in #555743, a bunch of new > substvars. Notably, it now handles ${source:Synopsis} and > ${source:Extended-Description} that are de