Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

Hopefully I'm not too late and I hope I won't make any ('dumb') mistakes as I'm not as well-versed in licenses and packaging as other participants. On Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:16:07 CEST Russ Allbery wrote: > > * The license is DFSG-free. > > * Exactly the same license wording is used by all

Bug#1051582: Policy 9.3 (Starting system services) is largely obsolete

Russ Allbery: Niels Thykier writes: I had a look at the introduction section of Policy to check who the target audience is. I cannot find an explicit mention of the target audience. I suspect there is a conflict here on the content because we have different audiences in mind for the Policy an

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

On Sun, 17 Sept 2023 at 18:53, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Luca Boccassi writes: > > > Let me clarify, here I meant something much simpler - the image > > installed is a 'normal' one, with r/w root and managed by apt as usual > > (ie: not immutable image-based) but with a repart.d snippet that causes