On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 15:25:54 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>
> - Packages can, to be compatible with Debian additions to some window
> - managers that do not support the FreeDesktop standard, also provide a
> + Applications that are not registered in the desktop m
Hi!
On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 09:21:04 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > "Charles" == Charles Plessy writes:
>
> Charles> Le Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a
> Charles> écrit :
> >> * Charles Plessy , 2015-09-24, 21:53: >-
> >> : ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon,
On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 11:39:47 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le mardi, 29 septembre 2015, 02.10:01 Guillem Jover a écrit :
> > Wow, this is such terrible policy… So we have supporters of the XDG
> > format, and supporters of the menu format. Some of those would an
On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 15:13:28 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le mardi, 29 septembre 2015, 14.34:35 Guillem Jover a écrit :
> > W/o anyone to implement this in the menu programs, this is just
> > wishful thinking, and might leave big chunks of our users with
> >
(Obviously whenever you say you are out of a discussion or will not
reply anymore there's some compelling reason to do otherwise…)
On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 18:05:02 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Guillem Jover wrote:
> You seem to be framing this as a XDG vs menu formats.
Hi Sam!
I have very low tolerance for what I perceive as unjust. The mere
existence of the TC and any of its invocations implies (to me) an
instance of constitutionally sanctioned injustice and imbalance in
the project, in addition of increased deterioration of the project's
social fabric.
In thi
Hi!
On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 20:46:03 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: normal
>
> Bug #770016 "Clarify network access for building packages in main"
> was about not downloading files via network. This created new lines in
> 4.9 as:
>
> | For packages in the main archiv
Hi!
On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 14:52:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: normal
> Control: tags -1 patch
> The specification of Debian control files in Policy §5.1 says:
>
> Lines starting with # without any preceding whitespace are
> comments lines that are only
[ Switching from d-p@l.d.o to the bug so that the thread is tracked. ]
On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 11:23:19 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Guillem Jover writes:
> > On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 14:52:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > What is the rationale for explicitly disallowing line-end com
[ Also redireting to the bug report. ]
On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 11:29:05 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Guillem Jover writes:
> > In the case of the copyright file, the document specifying it does not
> > list # as valid comment markers.
>
> When we were drafting that spec
From e80ec0774a3f95b31b18a4843d1ee10cae019031 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:43:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man: Clarify what characters constitute the syntax of deb822
syntax
Based-on-a-patch-by: Ben Finney
---
man/deb822.5 | 38 +-
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.8
Severity: normal
Hi!
Starting with dpkg 1.18.5, several maintainer script actions involving
a new package version, get that version as an argument after the old
version, because they could not get it in any other easy way. The new
version was only available i
Hi!
On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 21:45:55 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> 2016-05-15 20:49 GMT+02:00 Niels Thykier :
> > Bálint Réczey:
> >> I think making PIE and bindnow default in dpkg (at least for amd64) would
> >> be
> >> perfect release goals for Stretch.
> >
> > I support the end goal, but I suspe
On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 12:08:09 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> I'm not a fan myself for turning on hardening flags in the compiler itself,
> but if you do that, then dpkg issues like https://bugs.debian.org/823869
> need to be addressed (whether all obscure build systems picking these up, or
> not).
Hi!
On Wed, 2016-07-13 at 17:08:31 +0200, Valentin Samir wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> Reading the debian policy for the first time, I notice two minor typos where
> 'the'
> is repeated.
>
> The first time in §4.4:
> "+ or - is the the time zone o
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 00:49:13 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Section 5.6.1 of the DPM states:
> > "In a main source control information, a .changes or a .dsc file this may
> > contain only the name of the source package.
> > In the control f
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:59:11 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
>
> The description of Pre-Depends in section 7.2 says that half-configured
> packages can satisfy pre-dependencies. However, chapter 6 does not mention
> that package state. Instead, it talks about "Failed-Con
Hi,
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 19:59:20 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> [...] Is there a specification
> somewhere for the Vcs-* fields for arch repositories? I remember a
> discussion, but I don't remember the conclusions. If someone could point
> me at the specification or even just send me the corre
Hi,
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 13:46:58 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Package: debian-policy
> > Version: 3.7.2.1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > As I report in #379140 (against dpkg), I have implemented Breaks in
> > dpkg. The attached patch i
Hi,
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 19:23:58 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Okay, here's a revised proposal to address both Bug#209008 (parallel) and
> Bug#430649 (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS parsing). This proposal does the following:
> --- orig/policy.sgml
> +++ mod/policy.sgml
> +
> + debian/rules and
Hi,
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 12:37:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > When I try that, I get:
> >
> > dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Homepage' in input data in
> > package's section of control info file
> > ...
> > dpkg-genchanges: warnin
Hi,
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 12:29:35 +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:37:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:28:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > I propose that policy should standardise that we mo
Hi,
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 19:04:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here is a proposed patch that also clarifies the comparison of version
> numbers a bit. Seconds?
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 1c9a339..b7ac92e 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -2877,19 +2877,
Hi,
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 01:47:39 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > I think being LSB compliant is good for Debian.
>
> The LSB init script specification *is a specification for the init scripts
> of LSB packages*. It has NOTHING to do with LSB compliance of LSB
> implementations. Debian is an
Hi,
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 17:09:48 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bug#163666 against debian-policy points out that arch-specific build
> dependencies are unclearly specified in Policy currently in the presence
> of alternatives. The current wording says:
>
> All fields that specify build-time
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 14:01:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'd like to propose to formalize a new option («nocheck») in
> > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to make the build skip running any test-suites.
> >
> > This h
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 18:40:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The reason why I dropped the RFC reference is that there are multiple
> > references to UTF-8 all over Policy these days and I don't really want
> > to footnote all of them. I'm not sure the
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 13:31:20 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I observe that
> >
> > a) POSIX specifies the behavior of 'export' and 'readonly'
> > b) Implementation of 'local' is often very similar to 'export' and
> > 'readonly'
> >and in the absen
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 16:33:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Currently, Policy contains section 4.4.1, which documents the possible
> > use of alternative changelog formats. I don't think this section is
> > useful or relevant; I think the chances of
Hi,
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 13:50:29 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here's a proposed clarification of the current Policy language around
> Essential. Comments, feedback, seconds?
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index c9bd84f..d0dc2dc 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -9
Hi!
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:19:40 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> I'd like to hear from members of this list what they think about the
> following issue: I just noticed that to determine whether two Debian
> versions are equal, one can't use strcmp() or similar, and must
> implement the full compar
Hi!
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 15:20:02 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I finally found some time to write new proposed wording for the section in
> Policy on handling architecture-restricted dependencies. Could you review
> this change and be sure that I'm correctly describing the situation? I
> added
Hi!
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:39:38 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Julien Cristau writes:
> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 18:46:54 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > dpkg has supported comments (ignoring lines starting with #) in
> > > debian/control since 1.10.11. We should at least consider documenting
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 22:07:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -2450,6 +2450,14 @@ Package: libc6
> See for details.
>
>
> +
> + In addition to the control file syntax described + id="controlsyntax">above, this fi
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 05:08:38 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> how about:
>
> The installation of files into subdirectories of
> /usr/X11R6/is now prohibited. Include files
Missing space before the “is”.
> should be installed into /usr/include/X11/. For
>
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 12:03:09 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > If you're going to standardize a prefix that's purely for private,
> > internal use and will never, ever be standardized in any fashion, could I
> > convince you (and Nils) to use a pref
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 01:10:20 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > Nils Rennebarth writes:
> > > > Usually, unknown fields are iggnored by the debian packaging system. To
> > > > avoid conflicts of user d
[ BCCed debian-dpkg for the proposed dpkg changes. ]
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:04:30 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage
> and the policy do not match fully.
Ok, had finally the time to read and think about this. I've to say
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.1.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi!
Recommend using the DEB_*_ARCH_CPU and DEB_*_ARCH_OS variables instead
of the GNU style ones. And mention that the latter are mostly intended
for use with upstream build systems, and not Debian packaging.
regards,
guillem
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 12:11:04 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Another option could be to add a new modifier, like P(rivate) or
> > U(ser), to be used like XPBS-Field: which would preserve the X-. But
> > then you need a new enoug
Hi!
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 09:55:45 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jonathan Yu writes:
> > I ask because the terminology sounds ambiguous -- the OS part is
> > "sometimes" elided, as when the OS is Linux. But that doesn't
> > necessarily mean that a missing OS part means the OS is assumed to be
> >
Hi!
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:29:48 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> > --- a/policy.sgml
> > +++ b/policy.sgml
> > @@ -3276,7 +3276,9 @@ Package: libc6
> > commas
> > A space after each comma is conventional.
> > . C
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 18:50:42 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.8.1.0
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> Support for architecture wildcards has been added to dpkg-1.13.13, yet there's
> no clear policy as to how architecture wildcards should be used for other
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:02:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I don't remember if there's a bug filed asking for inclusion of the
> Vcs-* fields already. If there isn't and you feel like tracking this
> down, a bug that has a pointer to the specification would be great, or a
> proposed specific
Hi!
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 22:25:15 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> > I would change:
> > "It gives the total amount of disk space required to install the named
> > package."
> > to
> > "It gives an indicative amount of disk space required to install the
> > nam
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 13:58:29 +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.8.2.0
> Severity: normal
> 10.9.1 The use of dpkg-statoverride states:
>
> "The corresponding dpkg-statoverride --remove calls can then be made
> unconditionally when the package is purged."
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:33:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphaël Hertzog writes:
>
> > In response to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494714 I
> > would like that the policy be updated to allow the Binary field in .dsc
> > and .changes to span over multiple lines.
>
> Sorry a
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:37:56 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here's a proposed update to the Policy section on info documents. I'm
> looking for feedback or seconds.
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index ffc721f..2a8934a 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -8846,3
Hi!
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:21:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Particularly given the info file change, I think we've now accumulated
> enough stuff in Git to warrant another Policy release. There are a few
> other things in flight, but as before we can always pick those up in the
> next release
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 13:03:13 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Open questions:
> * Can we require a one-to-one correspondance between binary package names
> and debug package names that provide symbols for that binary package? I
> think we should; I think it would make the system more strai
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 23:34:11 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Once that's in place, packages can then start providing the fragments
> in /etc/inetd.d. At this point, there won't be any use of the
> generated file(s), but we can verify it's all working correctly.
> Once done, the inetds can start
Hi!
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 14:42:46 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava writes:
>
> > This bug has not been looked at for a while. The wiki article:
> > states:
> > ,[ http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling ]
> > | If you completely remove a configuration file, you
Hi!
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 20:01:00 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21 2009, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Thank you, that looks very useful. What I'm missing, however, is any
> > reference to debconf's config script. Isn't that called by dpkg, too?
>
> Hmm. There are three diffe
Hi!
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 00:38:12 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> These terms are synonyms. dpkg and dselect use halfconfigured
> internally and Failed-config when talking to the user. This patch
> ensures that policy uses the same term as dpkg does when talking to
> the user ("Failed-Config") f
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 19:00:28 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 00:38:12 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > These terms are synonyms. dpkg and dselect use halfconfigured
> > internally and Failed-config when talking to the user. This patch
> > ensures that
Hi!
[ CCing man-db as Colin is probably the best person to get feedback
from on this. ]
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 10:22:40 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 25. November 2009, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > Package purging left files on system:
> > /var/cache/man/pt not owned
> > /va
Hi!
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 16:07:48 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.8.3.0
> Severity: minor
> Currently, Debian Policy makes a general statement that all Bourne shell
> scripts should start with set -e and does not (so far as I can see) make
> an exception for init
Hi!
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 22:01:30 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> These terms are synonyms. dpkg and dselect use halfconfigured
> internally and used to use Failed-config when talking to the user in
> soe cases. This patch ensures that policy uses the same term as dpkg
> does when talking to the
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
In the first paragraph in §10.1 (Binaries), there's a description of
when is and is not appropriate to have a filename clash for binaries,
and what to do if such situation arises.
I think this needs to be extended and generalized to include several
other ca
Hi!
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 17:39:48 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Don Armstrong writes:
> > On Mon, 04 Jan 2010, Holger Levsen wrote:
> >> On Montag, 4. Januar 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >>> * It's sometimes necessary to purge a package and reinstall it to
> >>> fix some weird problem, or if not
Hi!
[ CCing #400322 for the additional data. ]
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 20:25:11 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Frans Pop (09/02/2010):
> > On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > > Frans Pop (09/02/2010):
> > > > This format is not (yet) allowed by policy: rootskel-gtk
> > > > (>
Hi!
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 10:51:56 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.8.4.0
> Severity: normal
> to test the actual behaviour of dpkg for this situation I created the
> following 5 packages:
[...]
> Test 1
> ==
>
> I start with version 1 installed and u
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:42:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here is proposed wording, which hopefully reflects the subsequent
> discussion. I'm looking for seconds.
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index d16df70..1871d4c 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -6011,7 +601
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:28:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava writes:
> > +
> > + Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
> > +the source will build an architecture-dependent package on
> > +the union of the lists of archite
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 00:06:39 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:28:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Manoj Srivastava writes:
> > > +
> > > + Specifying a list of architecture wildcards indicates that
> > > +t
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 12:51:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Julien Cristau writes:
> > what does this change mean for essential packages that want to prompt
> > the user when debconf isn't available? E.g. libc6.postinst tries to use
> > debconf, and if that's not available and $DEBIAN_FRONTEND !=
Hi!
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:34:32 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I'm looking for seconds or further discussion if people don't believe that
> this is the right direction to go.
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index af00c0e..3f6b82d 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -35
Hi!
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:56:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Okay, here's another try at this patch that removes some extraneous
> information that it sounds like we shouldn't get into, from this message
> and your other message, and tries to simplify the wording to address the
> issue raised i
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 13:09:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Guillem Jover writes:
> > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:56:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >>
> >>In the main debian/control file in the source
> >> - package, this field may co
Hi!
Here's a review from a non-native speaker.
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 17:40:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index bad28af..3d5334d 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -804,6 +804,35 @@
> in the .deb file format.
>
>
> +
Hi!
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:28:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Tobias Frost writes:
> > Looking at #262257, as an exampple, there are packages which declares
> > conflicts for whatever reason. However, the reason is NOT, that thec
> > packages could not co-existent on the same system (For the ex
Hi!
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 22:26:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> If this already works, we should document it, since it can be quite
> useful. Here's an attempt at wording. Please check this and make sure
> that I'm correctly documenting what works.
>
> Do architecture restrictions work with Pro
Hi!
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 08:59:24 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I propose the following patch for this bug instead in order to get it
> clear of this discussion. We can always go back and sort out whether it
> should use invoke-rc.d after we work through the other bug.
>
> Does this look okay?
>
Hi!
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:36:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here, many years later, is a proposed patch implementing that, omitting
> www-browser because it's not (yet) documented by Policy and adding
> x-terminal-emulator.
>
> Objections or seconds?
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
Hi!
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 17:03:21 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> t a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 0b3c1a1..597100e 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -2190,10 +2190,9 @@ endif
> Variable substitutions: debian/substvars
>
>
> - When dpkg-gencontrol,
> -
Hi!
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 10:30:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 9fe7158..c7f2a4e 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -1214,9 +1214,11 @@
>
>
>
> - You should not use dpkg-divert on a file
> - belonging to an
Hi!
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 18:16:21 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Charles Plessy writes:
> > Actually, with the release of GNU/kFreeBSD variants for Squeeze, this
> > paragraph is not totally accurate.
>
> That's a very good point.
Yeah, I was about to comment on just that but then I saw Charles
rical.
regards,
guillem
>From 4d13fa337774fc540b87e4e607bdb04e7ee94a83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:11:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Refer generically to Debian instead of the GNU/Linux instance
---
debian-menu-policy.desc |2 +-
debian-mime-pol
d
the footnote might need to be clarified probably.
regards,
guillem
>From 199ea60ca6e9a879f043fba7a588e71ad241468d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:00:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add FHS exception for GNU/Hurd top-level directories
---
policy.sgml |9
Hi!
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:57:50 +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 17:05 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Our footnote system is not great, so I'd keep it as one footnote. I agree
> > with putting GNU/Hurd first, but I'd like to keep the structure of listing
> > the exceptions
Hi!
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:25:35 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> In #509702, Philipp Kern says that a particular package's list of
> architectures should be specified in the source stanza of the control
> file, not in the binary packages' descriptions, to avoid any attempt
> to build the package
Hi!
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 19:51:17 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 07:45:16PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> > On 11/25/2010 07:18 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:25:35 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > >> In #509702, Phili
Hi,
On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 06:27:05PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> After the 486, Intel always provided a method to determine the CPU type and
> features available. As far as I can tell, there's no easy programmatic way
> to tell the difference between a (old, no CPUID) 486 and an (old, no
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2
Hi,
Definitions
===
I'll define «physical line» as the stream of bytes ending with an EOL
character (usually '\n', but it could be DOS style as well). «multi line»
as one or more physical lines with the following ones starting with at
least a space.
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
As of dpkg version 1.13.16, dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default,
thus including the Section and Priority fields in the generated binary
debian control files.
Attached a patch.
regards,
guillem
diff -Naur debian-poli
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 17:04:17 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I have proposed a modification for Policy that will permit wrapping in the
> following fields in debian/control:
>
> Depends Recommends Suggests Enhances Pre-Depends Conflicts
> Provides Replaces Build-Depends Build-Depends-I
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 23:10:36 +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: normal
> [Side note: Buildds/dpkg-buildpackage has no robust way of telling if
> the optional build-arch field exists and must call build. This is
> wastefull for both build dependencies and build ti
[ Found this today on the web archives. ]
Hi,
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:11:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote:
> The documentation for this probably belongs in debian-policy; current
> versions of policy seem to mention Source-Version, though, not the new
> substvars, and I'm not sure if anyone has submi
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:01:08 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:11:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > The documentation for this probably belongs in debian-policy; current
> > >
Hi Russ,
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 18:50:26 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Could you please review the following patch to Debian Policy to document
> the use of ~ in version numbers and confirm that this matches dpkg's
> behavior? I'd like to get this into Policy since it's already in
> widespread use
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 18:08:52 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Bug #209008 proposed to have a common interface to tell packages to do
> parallel building (make -j).
> For some reason, the discussion that happened back in 2003 isn't logged
> on the BTS, but can be read in [2]. Everyone seemed to agr
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 17:57:57 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> Can't we simply allow passing MAKEFLAGS in the env of debian/rules
> instead of defining new vars?
That does not help if upstream's build system is not based on make.
regards,
guillem
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Severity: wishlist
I'd like to propose to formalize a new option («nocheck») in
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to make the build skip running any test-suites.
This helps for example when doing iterations of patching, building
and testing, until you want to do the final
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
Starting from dpkg 1.13.19 the substvar Source-Version is deprecated,
and it should be replaced by either binary:Version or source:Version
which have clearer defined semantics. The policy is currently
recommending the old
Hi,
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 04:09:51 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:02:52 -0600 (CST), Adam Heath said:
> > This is not supported by any tool in debian.
> > Control files are ascii, 7-bit, period. And, when generating the
> > .changes for an upload, the changelog is includ
x- linux-i386 i386
any-any any
I've a added as well a new option (-n normalize) to dpkg-architecture
so Maintainers can use it to get the alias expansions. Try it to see
the results.
regards,
guillem
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.26
Author: Guillem Jover <[EMAIL
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:45:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The idea is to introduce architecture aliases, they will only take
> > effect on the source package and will get expanded when building
> > the bi
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:50:17PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On another thread, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> Could we automatically define some @linux@ or @any-i386@ variables the
> >> same way sh
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:05:34AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > The idea is to introduce architecture aliases, they will only take
> [...]
>
> > I've a added as well a new option (-n normalize) to dpkg-archi
Hi!
On Sun, 2023-09-10 at 10:30:41 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> index 4bab7df..904fa52 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> @@ -812,10 +812,11 @@ See :ref:`s-descriptions` for furth
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