Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-02 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 05:50:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hi folks, > > I think Debian Policy 4.0.0.0 is ready for release. One thing I was always curious about: is there a reason to use such a deep versioning scheme? A shorter version number would make package maintainers life a bit easie

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-02 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:44:16PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:17:21AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro a écrit : > > > > One thing I was always curious about: is there a reason to use such a > > deep versioning scheme? > > > > A shorter

Bug#870915: debian-policy: [5.6.30] Testsuite: There are much more defined values

2017-08-30 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 08:53:17PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:56:30PM +0200, Ondrej Novy wrote: > > 2017-08-26 21:49 GMT+02:00 Sean Whitton : > > > Actually, this depends on which autodep8 module you want to use. I know > > > that my elpa module runs the tests even i

Re: where to maintain DEP8^W autopkgtest spec now

2014-07-23 Thread Antonio Terceiro
anging test suites a lot On the other hand, with the recent increase in autopkgtest/DEP8 usage, we have been discovering several new needs which often have an impact on the specification (see e.g. the changelog for the recent 3.2 release), so freezing DEP-8 right now might hamper the development. -- Antonio Terceiro signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: where to maintain DEP8^W autopkgtest spec now

2014-07-28 Thread Antonio Terceiro
gt; If you agree with that, on my part I can take care of finalizing DEP8, > i.e. marking it as ACCEPTED and adding the disclaimer that further > changes will happen in the new sub-policy. Yes, that would work for me. -- Antonio Terceiro signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-19 Thread Antonio Terceiro
ests. Currently, the only defined value is > > > > autopkgtest. > > > > + > > > > + > > > > + > > > > + This field is automatically added to Debian source control > > > > files by > > >

Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-20 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 01:38:32PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:35:22PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > > > > Anybody Developer who thinks that 1) the Policy is useful and 2) the > > > Testsuite > > > field is useful, can