Bug#1020238: debian-policy: Spacing an typographical cleanups

Package: debian-policy Version: 4.6.1.1 Severity: minor Hi! I'm attaching a few patches fixing spacing and typographical issues. For the quotes fix, I personally highly prefer UTF-8 character pairs such as «», “”, ‘’, but went with the conservative ASCII ones '' as that tends to cause less opposi

Bug#1020241: debian-policy: copyright-format: Formatting improvements/changes

Package: debian-policy Version: 4.6.1.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi! These are the set of changes I keep doing to the debian/copyright files I end up touching. While some could be characterized as a subjective style issue, I've tried to give as close as possibly objective :) rationale for e

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Bug#1020238: debian-policy: Spacing an typographical cleanups

Guillem Jover writes: > I'm attaching a few patches fixing spacing and typographical issues. > For the quotes fix, I personally highly prefer UTF-8 character pairs > such as «», “”, ‘’, but went with the conservative ASCII ones '' as that > tends to cause less opposition. But I'm happy to convert

Bug#1020241: debian-policy: copyright-format: Formatting improvements/changes

Guillem Jover writes: > These are the set of changes I keep doing to the debian/copyright files > I end up touching. While some could be characterized as a subjective > style issue, I've tried to give as close as possibly objective :) > rationale for every and each of the changes in the commit me

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Bug#1020243: debian-policy: Use OpenPGP instead of PGP

Package: debian-policy Version: 4.6.1.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi! Another minor patch I had laying around, switching references to the OpenPGP specification instead of to the specific PGP implementation. Thanks, Guillem From 4dd6c1ef7c487fe2cd293e8fbddfdc898e0e9199 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

Bug#1020241: debian-policy: copyright-format: Formatting improvements/changes

Russ Allbery writes: > I would happily apply a version of 0002 that only changes Files and > leaves Copyright alone. Or, perhaps even better, one that changes Copyright the way that you did, but just adds an extra space. I think that's the simplest compromise between what you're trying to accom

Bug#1020243: debian-policy: Use OpenPGP instead of PGP

Guillem Jover writes: > Another minor patch I had laying around, switching references to the > OpenPGP specification instead of to the specific PGP implementation. Thanks, applied. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

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Bug#1020248: debian-policy: Clarifying nomenclature for control file names

Package: debian-policy Version: 4.6.1.1 Severity: wishlist Hi! This is a followup from my comment at: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998165#43 To summarize, we have IMO confusing naming and nomenclature for the various control files and paragraphs/stanzas, and this is even con

Bug#1020241: debian-policy: copyright-format: Formatting improvements/changes

Hi! On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 10:42:28 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > > These are the set of changes I keep doing to the debian/copyright files > > I end up touching. While some could be characterized as a subjective > > style issue, I've tried to give as close as possibly ob

Bug#1020241: debian-policy: copyright-format: Formatting improvements/changes

Hi! On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 22:56:16 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 10:58:20 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Russ Allbery writes: > > > I would happily apply a version of 0002 that only changes Files and > > > leaves Copyright alone. > > I can split that up, for an incremental

Bug#1020248: debian-policy: Clarifying nomenclature for control file names

Hello, On Sun 18 Sep 2022 at 10:28PM +02, Guillem Jover wrote: > So, how does «source package paragraph» and «binary package paragraph» > (of the «template control file») sound instead? Can we standardise on 'stanza', please? I thought that was already standard, and "paragraph" is for prose. -

Bug#1020248: debian-policy: Clarifying nomenclature for control file names

On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 14:53:30 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sun 18 Sep 2022 at 10:28PM +02, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > So, how does «source package paragraph» and «binary package paragraph» > > (of the «template control file») sound instead? > > Can we standardise on 'stanza', please? > > I th

Bug#1020248: debian-policy: Clarifying nomenclature for control file names

Hello, On Mon 19 Sep 2022 at 12:45AM +02, Guillem Jover wrote: > I went for paragraph, because dpkg has some instances of it already in > docs and code (and stanza only in code), and mainly because the Debian > policy uses almost exclusively paragraph for this with a single > mention of "stanza"

Bug#1020248: debian-policy: Clarifying nomenclature for control file names

Sean Whitton writes: > On Mon 19 Sep 2022 at 12:45AM +02, Guillem Jover wrote: >> So, personally, I'd be happy to fully switch to stanza TBH, because it >> seems more specific to our use, probably easier to search for, and >> it's shorter. > I think this is fine for Policy to do. I vote for swi

Bug#1020248: debian-policy: Clarifying nomenclature for control file names

Guillem Jover writes: > I've been considering naming debian/control something like > «Debian template source package control file», as that is used to > generate both the source and binary control files. And always > prefixing with Debian, so that would end up as: > * debian/control: «Debian s

Bug#1020241: debian-policy: copyright-format: Formatting improvements/changes

Guillem Jover writes: > Oh! I've completely missed this all this time, I think because that > feels very weird given that it has no synopsis and the text is added > already on the first line on the spec. :/ Other formatted fields with the same semantics are Source, Disclaimer, and Comment. I do

Bug#1020241: debian-policy: copyright-format: Formatting improvements/changes

Guillem Jover writes: > On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 22:56:16 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >> On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 10:58:20 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Russ Allbery writes: I would happily apply a version of 0002 that only changes Files and leaves Copyright alone. >> I can split that up,

Bug#1020241: debian-policy: copyright-format: Formatting improvements/changes

On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 18:04:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > BTW, just to make this clear, if this feels like it might not be decided > > quickly on the Debian policy side, then I'll prepare/commit changes to > > revert this behavior from tooling that I've previously intro

Bug#1020241: debian-policy: copyright-format: Formatting improvements/changes

Guillem Jover writes: > No problem. Then in that case I guess I'll try to prepare/commit such > revert patches for the tooling during this week or so. For whatever it's worth, I'm not sure that I would bother, even though I share with you the general desire to be correct about things like this.

Bug#1020248: debian-policy: Clarifying nomenclature for control file names

Hello, On Sun 18 Sep 2022 at 05:34PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sean Whitton writes: >> On Mon 19 Sep 2022 at 12:45AM +02, Guillem Jover wrote: > >>> So, personally, I'd be happy to fully switch to stanza TBH, because it >>> seems more specific to our use, probably easier to search for, and >>>

Bug#1020241: debian-policy: copyright-format: Formatting improvements/changes

On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 18:01:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > > Oh! I've completely missed this all this time, I think because that > > feels very weird given that it has no synopsis and the text is added > > already on the first line on the spec. :/ > > Other formatted f

Bug#991984: Please document minimal environment variable needed for sensible-utils

"Bastien Roucariès" writes: > Dear Maintainer, > For now $env -i sensible-utils, fail due to $HOME and $TERM not set. > I am for now working around HOME not set in sensible-utils core, but > posix [1] documentation does not document really the value that should > be set for a correct behavior o

Bug#1017446: marked as done (debian-policy: stress that preinst script that install by using base64 decode on self an elf binary is not a good stuff)

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Bug#975631: debian-policy: window manager: remove reference to Debian menu

Ansgar writes: > Section 11.8.4 "Packages providing a window manager" still references > the Debian menu. But the Debian menu is deprecated. > I suggest to remove the reference, for example with the patch below. > --- a/policy/ch-customized-programs.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-customized-programs.rs

Bug#961294: marked as done (Allow derivatives to define parent project fields)

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Bug#924401: base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

Control: reassign 924401 base-passwd,base-files Control: clone 924401 -1 Control: reassign -1 Essential packages only provide functionality after being configured Control: tags -1 patch Hi all, Trimming the recipient list to just the relevant maintainers and those who proposed and (I believe) se

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Bug#944801: marked as done (debian-policy: [9.11] remove requirement that alternative inits must support sysvinit scripts)

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Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var

Ansgar writes: > I would like to recommend packages to use tmpfiles.d(5) to manage > creating directories in locations such as /var or /etc instead of > maintainer scripts. > It could also be used to create trivial files below /var that should be > recreated if deleted by accident (such as atd's

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Bug#941803: marked as done (debian-policy: dependencies on font packages)

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Bug#948615: marked as done (debian-policy: Broken link to the list of virtual package names)

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Bug#953911: debian-policy: clarify documentation of "Closes: #NNNNNN" changelog syntax

"Daniel Shahaf" writes: > Here's a revision of the patch incorporating the feedback so far: Thank you for this patch! I confirmed that your description matches the regular expression. This has now been applied for the next release of Debian Policy. > [[[ > diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/

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Bug#830913: debian-policy: Allow amd64 systems without /lib64

Javier Serrano Polo writes: > Some amd64 systems do not have /lib64, although they can run programs > with the interpreter set to /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 . It would be > nice if Debian could allow such systems. In section 9.1.1, where it > says: > The execution time linker/loader, ld

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