Re: developers-reference_12.3_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2022-04-02 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Saturday, 2 April 2022 15:18:52 CEST Debian FTP Masters wrote: >* resources.rst: add pointer to https://github.com/Debian Ironic to see this on the same day that I read this: https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infrastructure.html I could quote many parts, but I'll stick

Bug#1027832: debian-policy: Please clarify that priority required packages are not automatically build essential

2023-01-04 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:14:10 CET Santiago Vila wrote: > -- > From this definition it follows that packages of required priority are not > necessarily build essential, as it is possible for some them not to be ... for some *of* them ..

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Sunday, 26 February 2023 17:59:52 CET Bill Allombert wrote: > > During the last weeks I had a look at the Vcs situation in Debian. > > > > For the allowed systems the situation in unstable is the following: > > ... > > svn is used by ~130 packages, many of which point to bad URLs. > > > > We c

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

2023-09-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
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#1088443: debian-policy: Recommend Debian package version format when upstream has no releases

2024-11-28 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Thu Nov 28, 2024 at 10:44 AM CET, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Otto Kekäläinen writes: > > >> The commit hash. 007c9af. > > > > I disagree here - to me the git commit hash is the single most > > important identifier for the software version if there are no actual > > releases. > > FWIW, I used to b

Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-20 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Tue Nov 19, 2024 at 1:12 PM CET, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:37:57 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 06:29:25PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > > > On the other hand, is there much benefit? People used to typing > > > 'less debian/README.source' would n

Bug#1088443: debian-policy: Recommend Debian package version format when upstream has no releases

2024-12-01 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Sun Dec 1, 2024 at 1:09 PM CET, Simon Josefsson wrote: > "Diederik de Haas" writes: > > >> In case you make more than one snapshot per day, you can append a > >> snapshot number after the date, e.g. 0.0~git20130606.2.b00ec39-1. > >> This shoul

Bug#1091985: developers-reference: Suggest architecture-properties for 5.10.4

2025-01-07 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Fri Jan 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM CET, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: developers-reference > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net > > The section 5.10.4 is about packages that are not portable to all > architectures. Here it talks about changing the `Architecture` line and > `Package