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Re: Bug#835520: Policy 9.3.1 is inaccurate to the point of being harmful

2016-09-04 Thread Bill Allombert
you*, as your reply fails entirely to even address the work that > has been done and put right there in front of you. Language please! Steve is right that you did not forward this to the BTS. The email title says 'Bug#835520' but actually it was not forwarded to bug #835520. Cool down. -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#837478: "PIE by default" transition is underway -- wiki needs updating

2016-10-26 Thread Bill Allombert
ies. > > > I'd personally probably not ship them, > > and would instead provide non-PIC ones there. Or at most ship them in > > addition as _pic.a libraries, to require explicit invocation. > > I'd rather not built everything twice, so I think I'll just drop the > static libraries in the next upload and only worry about this again, > when/if someone files a bug about missing the static libraries. It is customary to build everything twice, one with -fPIC, one without. Waiting for a bug report to do something is unfriendly to people using the stable release. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#837478: Static libraries - PIC or PIE?

2016-11-20 Thread Bill Allombert
s measurably slower than normal code. The fact that the Debian default compiler generate slow code is quite annoying for HPC and anything where performance comparaison are important. At the very least this break the principle of leat surprise. -fPIE should only be activated by default when building Debian package, not for users compiling their own code. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Planning to change emacs-defaults (emacs) to emacs25 soon

2016-12-28 Thread Bill Allombert
help with delayed > NMUs where we can), we'll upload the changed emacs-defaults package to > sid and then try to help with any further issues. Hello Rob, Do you realize the freeze is in one week, and that lot of people are in holiday during this week ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Planning to change emacs-defaults (emacs) to emacs25 soon

2016-12-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 02:19:26PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > Bill Allombert writes: > > > Do you realize the freeze is in one week, and that lot of people are > > in holiday during this week ? > > My understanding is that the upcoming freeze is for the addition of new

Re: Upcoming Debian Policy 3.9.9.0 release

2017-01-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 12:09:14AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > * Policy: [4.3] update autotools during build time > Wording: Bill Allombert > Seconded: Niels Thykier > Seconded: Andreas Barth > Closes: #746514 The title does not reflect what my wording is a

Bug#849483: debian-policy: emacs build dependencies probably need adjustment

2017-01-08 Thread Bill Allombert
d become two in the future once > DebianDoc-SGML is converted to Docbook. Thanks Guillem, I would very happy to get rid of the emacs dependency. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#175064: DocBook XML conversion is read with this script

2017-01-14 Thread Bill Allombert
orry about the main Policy > document, which presumably would be harder, in a later release. I am concerned that DocBook is much too complex to be used for Debian policy. We need to people to write patches without trouble and we do not have many editors available for fixing the XML. Debiandoc-SGML virtue is that it is simple. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: New Stack article on packaging

2017-05-03 Thread Bill Allombert
others. This is rather opposite goals. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: DebCamp sprint?

2017-05-03 Thread Bill Allombert
DPL". > > How many of the current policy editors expect to be present at DebCamp > this year? How about organising a sprint to handle the current backlog? > This would raise everyone's spirits about making progress with Policy. > I would love to be involved. Alas

Bug#844431: policy: packages should be reproducible

2017-05-11 Thread Bill Allombert
build packages reproducibly with an interface like cowbuilder. Currently, there are too much uncertainty about the process for bug reports to be of severity normal. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#844431: policy: packages should be reproducible

2017-05-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 02:36:46PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:42:43PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > I really think there should be an official tool to do build packages > > reproducibly with an interface like cowbuilder. > > the official t

Bug#844431: policy: packages should be reproducible

2017-05-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 02:58:27PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 04:51:47PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > the official tool to build packages reproducible in sid is called > > > "dpkg-buildpackage" (since dpkg 1.18.16 in sid since 2016

Bug#844431: policy: packages should be reproducible

2017-05-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 03:20:54PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 05:05:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > a.) go to http://reproducible.debian.net/$srcpkg and see if its reproducible > today. As I said, I would like to check that my package build is reproducible

Bug#844431: policy: packages should be reproducible

2017-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 11:15:26PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:05:17AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 03:20:54PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 05:05:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: &g

Re: Using dh for debian-policy packaging

2017-05-29 Thread Bill Allombert
a minimal debian/rules file. > - Move the doc-base registration files into debian with *.doc-base names. > > My guess is that nearly no one will care, but if I'm missing some reason > not to do this, please let me know. What we should really do is to remove the build-dependency on emacs which cause trouble. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#845255: debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications

2017-05-29 Thread Bill Allombert
sal. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: posix standard susv3 for shell scripts

2017-06-09 Thread Bill Allombert
all supported /bin/sh are actually compliant with v4.2. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#864615: please update version of posix standard for scripts (section 10.4)

2017-06-11 Thread Bill Allombert
eed to be listed to check whether this can affect any shell script that rely on SUSv3 Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#758234: proposed wording

2017-06-20 Thread Bill Allombert
symbols). > + This priority is deprecated, but may be used to denote packages > + that are unlikely to be useful even for most users interested > + in their general field. Before anything, we should ask the ftp masyer whether they consider the policy group or themselves responsible for setting the priority. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority

2017-06-20 Thread Bill Allombert
by packages. So we shoud first ask the FTP master whether they consider that the priorities are defined by them or by the policy, and if they are willing to change the override file to adjust. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#787816: Replace FHS 2.3 by FHS 3.0 in the Policy.

2017-06-25 Thread Bill Allombert
t of the box (build-depends on xmlto > > and > > fop). Perhaps it would deserve its own package ? > > I would like to see FHS 3.0 adopted as well. Or an 2.3 exception to > allow the use of /usr/libexec. I assume if we allow /usr/libexec, we also need to support /usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/ etc. ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#542288: debian-policy: Version numbering: native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads

2017-06-28 Thread Bill Allombert
this is consistent with the devref, since it covers the same ground. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#798476: debian-policy: don't require Uploaders

2017-07-15 Thread Bill Allombert
lid information about the effective maintainers. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#798476: debian-policy: don't require Uploaders

2017-08-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 07:18:41AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Bill, > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 02:48:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > The problem is that the majority of such documentation is outdated and > > obsolete to the point of being useless. > > M

Re: FYI: "Wording:" changelog convention

2017-08-01 Thread Bill Allombert
seconds. This assuming the writer endorce the proposal, but this is always the case in practice. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#758124: Seconded, and non-normative updates

2017-08-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 04:23:05PM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > I second Charles' patch. Please always quote what you are seconding. This avoid confusion. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-02 Thread Bill Allombert
", which is not true of a lot of teams. You are omitting the case of a team which get reduced to a single member, in which case the package need not be orphaned. Yet it is important the fact is mentionned in the package. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 04:22:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert writes: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 05:48:15PM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > > >> I've also included a purely informative change which emphasises that > >> packages that are tea

Bug#835520: Seconding nine patches & seeking seconds for two more

2017-08-03 Thread Bill Allombert
So I'm seeking seconds for the following replacement for > Andreas' 5th and 8th patches: In general, policy paragraph mentioning debhelper features are moved to footnotes. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-04 Thread Bill Allombert
> the bug against the package, and not against wnpp.] > > In N days, the bug can be filed against Nowadays orphaning is done by reuploading the package with the maintainer set to the QA group rather than using a O: wnpp bug. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 01:55:01AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 10:46:19PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 11:59:40AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > An O: bug means that it is confirmed that the package is orphan

Bug#798476: Bug#870788: Extract recent uploaders from d/changelog

2017-08-05 Thread Bill Allombert
get that it would work 90% of package ? Using [] for non-team members is very common. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#871534: debian-policy: Clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may be moderated

2017-08-08 Thread Bill Allombert
the Maintainer field, even in the cases where > they are actively and regularly monitored, appears to violate the > spirit of Section 3.3 which stipulates a "working email address". How do you define "moderated" ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#218893: Done in a recent release

2017-08-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 07:53:51AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Version: 3.9.4.0 > > We believe this was fixed in a recent release. What make you believe that ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#844431: Reproducibility in Policy

2017-08-12 Thread Bill Allombert
is require policy to define the build environment and build instruction much more precisely than it does now, which does not seems to be practical. Unless maybe if a reference implementation is provided. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#871534: debian-policy: Clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may be moderated

2017-08-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 08:06:46PM -0400, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Bill, > > > How do you define "moderated" ? > > I can't really, sorry. I guess getting a "Your message awaits moderator > approval" quasi-bounce… but that's not exactly right. I

Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds

2017-08-15 Thread Bill Allombert
fferent concept that deserve a different name. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds

2017-08-15 Thread Bill Allombert
able way for maintainers to check whether a package is reproducible according to policy before uploading it to the archive. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds

2017-08-16 Thread Bill Allombert
r report you cannot reproduce, do some change following the help provided and hope for the best. Then some day later you get the same error report. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose

2017-08-16 Thread Bill Allombert
m concerned we are putting the cart before the horse. Cheers, Another Policy Editor (a delegated position). -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose

2017-08-16 Thread Bill Allombert
timestamps honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose

2017-08-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:19:47PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > > But as a technical document, it is lacking practical recommendation > > for maintainers how to make sure their package build reproducibly > > The practica

Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds

2017-08-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 05:40:23PM -0700, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Bill, > > > Now compare with reproducible build. You get some error report you > > cannot reproduce, do some change following the help provided and > > hope for the best. Then some day later you get t

Bug#873001: [debian-policy] get-orig-source documentation should include a pointer to devref and a minimal example

2017-08-24 Thread Bill Allombert
workflow to try to > standardize.) How do you plan to instruct uscan how repacking should be done ? To me, having a debian/rules target seems the correct think to do. (That is what I do with my packages with comple repacking.) That said, maybe the shell magic that could be moved inside uscan. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#874206: debian-policy: allow a trailing comma in package relationship fields

2017-09-07 Thread Bill Allombert
upported in source control files but not in the binary > > ones? Maybe a better way to say that is that it is only supported in debian/control, and not in files generated from it, including .dsc. We already had this discussion in another bug report. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
o not need that. Watch files could not do that until recently. So the comparaison is unfair. What need to be checked is how many get-orig-source rules has been reimplemented in term of watch files. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:38:49PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:28:42AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > get-orig-source and watch files serve a different purpose. > > > > get-orig-source is used to build the .orig. tarball from the true > >

Bug#813471: Bug#877212: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-04 Thread Bill Allombert
want policy to read like legalese, we need to accept minor ambiguities in wording that can be resolved from the rationale. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#877697: debian-policy: discourage using all 4 digits numbers in Standards-Version

2017-10-04 Thread Bill Allombert
ith you, what are the practical negative effect of putting the 4th digit in the Standards-Version field ? Lintian could easily be made to flag it, but is it worth the trouble ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#877697: debian-policy: discourage using all 4 digits numbers in Standards-Version

2017-10-04 Thread Bill Allombert
four?" Doing that would be lead to the removal of four digits by maintainers for all practical prupose. Nobody is going to add a lintian exception for this. If four digits are fine, then lintian whould not warn against them. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#879049: debian-policy: 4.9.1: Allow nodoc to be used to not create empty -doc packages

2017-10-18 Thread Bill Allombert
ce package, but documentation-only binary packages may be > nearly empty when built with this option." [2] > > I don't think there is any benefit to anyone from empty -doc packages. What about packages that depend on -doc packages ? They might become uninstallable. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#878967: debian-policy: clarify purpose of debian/changelog

2017-10-19 Thread Bill Allombert
nclude the relevant extract from the changelog and do not miss packaging change because they where listed in unreleased versions and dpkg-genchanges -v was not used properly. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#878967: debian-policy: clarify purpose of debian/changelog

2017-10-25 Thread Bill Allombert
duced and see whether the package is actively maintained upstream and in Debian. Also I read it to my children before putting them to bed. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#880992: debian-policy should not recommend running editor using absolute path

2017-11-08 Thread Bill Allombert
ather than putting things called 'editor' > > and 'pager' into PATH. > > I understand and agree, but that doesn't mean that packages should > invoke editor using an absolute path. > > Policy describes package behavior, not user behavior. > > Further, a sysadmin on a shared machine doesn't have a way to set > EDITOR for all users, Why not ? PAM can do it, see /etc/environment? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-27 Thread Bill Allombert
gt; Seconded. Before we make it a must, is there a lintian test for it ? How may packages need to be fixed ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 02:08:37PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Bill, > > On Mon, Nov 27 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Before we make it a must, is there a lintian test for it ? > > I am not sure. > > > How may packages need to be fixed ? > &g

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 09:10:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:34:15AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Sean Whitton dijo [Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:49:59AM -0700]: > > > I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I > > &g

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2017-11-30 Thread Bill Allombert
hat all changelog are useless, and by removing them we discourage upstream of producing useful changelog. git log might be more useful in some situation and extremly inconvenient in some others (to start with it require network access and cloning the full project history). The ability to extract upstream changelog from .deb is useful. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2017-12-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 08:45:51PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert writes: > > > git log might be more useful in some situation and extremly inconvenient > > in some others (to start with it require network access and cloning the > > full project history). &

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2017-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
h_installchangelogs can do is to install everything that looks like a changelog or a NEWS file. However, I am concerned that having dh_installchangelogs removing files will lead to less predictability. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenseso

2017-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
GPL-2``, > > ``/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3``, > > Seconded. So, what is the percentage of packages under this license ? This has always been the criterium used to put it in common-licenses. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenseso

2017-12-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 10:26:26AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Bill, > > On Sat, Dec 09 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > So, what is the percentage of packages under this license ? This has > > always been the criterium used to put it in common-licenses. > &

Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenseso

2017-12-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 11:53:51AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Dec 09 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > See the file tools/license-count in the policy git repo and look up > > the debian-policy list archive for previous statistics. > > Thank

Re: Bug#883966: debian-policy: please add MIT/Expat to common licenses

2017-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
ng distribution but it always offer both source and binary. The client is performing downloading and copying. It is its choice to download binaries only. However: this covers the GPL clause about source distribution, but it might not satisfy the MIT "include in all copy" clause beca

Bug#884223: debian-policy: please add AGPL-3.0 to common licenses

2017-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
ld write a script to generate the copyright file. In any case, before going farther with this we need a run of tools/license-count. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#883950: debian-policy: allow specifying common licenses with only the identifiero

2017-12-19 Thread Bill Allombert
ieve the proposal in this bug report can be > implemented quite easily without conflating the automated tools idea. Plese remember that there is no requirement to use copyright-format-1.0. If you feel that copyright-format-1.0. is a burden rather than a help, do not use it. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Bill Allombert
have been included in the first place (it was expected that more packages would migrate from 1.2 to 1.3). So it makes better sense to count GFDL 1.2+1.3 as a single number. The usual threshold for inclusion was much higher than 138. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-12-29 Thread Bill Allombert
ig-source target from policy is that it will appear in some debian/rules but not be documented anymore. I do not see how this can be helpful to newcomers. They will still be exposed to it without having the documentation in policy. It would be more useful to kept it but to add a note toward migrating to uscan if possible. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Bug#886219: lintian should be less pedantic about latest policy version

2018-01-03 Thread Bill Allombert
n the other hand it should not be done in NMU, because some maintainers use this field to track of far they checked the upgrading-checklist file for this package. So I agree that updating S-V should never block uploading other improvements. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#889820: debian-policy: 12.5, relaxed requirement for copyright location

2018-02-07 Thread Bill Allombert
deb files that did not include the copyright file. However your proposal has the benefit of avoiding spurious circular dependencies caused by the symlink option. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#889820: debian-policy: 12.5, relaxed requirement for copyright location

2018-02-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 02:32:55PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 01:43:08PM +0100, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 4.1.3.0 > > Severity: wishlist > > X-Debbugs-CC: a...@debian.org, ballo...@debian.org, >

Bug#889820: debian-policy: 12.5, relaxed requirement for copyright location

2018-02-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 06:56:59PM +0100, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > X-Debbugs-CC: a...@debian.org, ballo...@debian.org, spwhit...@spwhitton.name, > r...@debian.org > > El dc 07 de 02 de 2018 a les 17:31 +0100, Bill Allombert va escriure: > > ... However will have to have a

Bug#890142: debian-policy: Please provide a backport of the package

2018-02-11 Thread Bill Allombert
gt; but…) You can also download policy from https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt (there seems to be missing a link to policy-1.html) Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-02 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 07:56:40PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Node.js expects pure js modules to be installed at /usr/lib/nodejs but > javascript libraries are installed at /usr/share/javascript Why should pure js module be in /usr/lib instead of /usr/share ? Cheers, -- Bill. Ima

Re: Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package [and 1 more messages]

2018-03-11 Thread Bill Allombert
s? You should not embed them. Instead you can merge several tiny modules together and ship them as a single .deb, which eventually Provides: node-mod1, node-mod2 etc. So package can still Depends on the individual names. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2018-04-05 Thread Bill Allombert
re policy allows for both behaviour. This way, debhelper can be updated without breaking policy and developers would have a reference for the new behaviour. Then the old behaviour is deprecated. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-04-11 Thread Bill Allombert
d to provide a script debian/get-orig-source . I wonder, maybe uscan could support debian/get-orig-source as a last resort ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-04-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 03:49:17PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bill Allombert writes ("Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released"): > > I wonder, maybe uscan could support debian/get-orig-source as a last > > resort ? > > Only if you pass --trust-source o

Bug#809383: mention explicitly double listing: Depends, Recommends, Suggests

2018-04-17 Thread Bill Allombert
agged by lintian, but does not need to appear in policy. Most of the time it will be an oversight or caused by a change in external dependencies, so it is worthwhile to notify the maintainer, but does not need to be in policy. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#809383: mention explicitly double listing: Depends, Recommends, Suggests

2018-04-17 Thread Bill Allombert
I violate any > laws?" What am I to answer? "I don't know"? Lintian is not a policeman, more like the helpful person that knock to your window to tell you your left-rear tyre is flat. > Can I answer "No you are not. I am just telling you anyway." Yes, you can. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too mucho

2018-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
ependencies) and there should be an option for non transitive Recommends (install Recommends but not Recommends of Recommends). Cheers -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Migrating developers-reference to salsa

2018-05-29 Thread Bill Allombert
as the Debian Policy group. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#901160: Updating the description of the Standards-Version field

2018-06-10 Thread Bill Allombert
ive to require them to be implemented at the same time. Also probably not all package are relevant for the new requirement anyway. I rather read it as a basic QA check: if a package carries a 5-year old std-ver, probably it is not maintained anymore. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#876075: Bug#879048: Bug#876075: Anchors are non-unique in the single-HTML version

2018-06-10 Thread Bill Allombert
> Any objections to dropping singlepage html output completely, until a > future date at which Sphinx upstream has improved it? If you do that, then do not close the bugs related to policy-1.html because they will still be valid, and report a bug 'policy-1.html is missing'. The policy-1.html has the nice property that it is easy to search the whole document. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#873456: Bug#876075: Bug#879048: Bug#876075: Anchors are non-unique in the single-HTML version

2018-06-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 03:01:51PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 01:37:11PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > On Mon, Dec 25 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure where we landed with this, but it fee

Bug#787816: Replace FHS 2.3 by FHS 3.0 in the Policy.

2018-06-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:28:11PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 at 22:37:04 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > I assume if we allow /usr/libexec, we also need to support > > /usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/ etc. ? > > I'm not sure I see why we would? Pl

Bug#880920: Document Rules-Requires-Root field

2018-06-15 Thread Bill Allombert
(my emphasis), which is a fairly common bit of en_DE. I assume it's > a literal translation of something that's correct in German? This is also common in en_FR, so it is probably valid in en_EU. The English passive forms rules are awkward for latin speakers. It is common to use the latin passive forms rules in en_EU. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#891216: seconded 891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump

2018-06-28 Thread Bill Allombert
are dropped in filenames. I'm > afraid I stand by that decision. While I agree with the consultation requirement, the epoch in filename is a different issue. The only reason I saw mentinned was that using ':' was problematic. However why not use another separator then ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Section for xfonts-foo

2018-06-29 Thread Bill Allombert
; section for that matter). As a rule, sections are decided by the FTP masters and not by Debian policy. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-04 Thread Bill Allombert
ME.source can be useful. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Re: Bug #877367: www.debian.org: Please consider adding redirects for old Policy chapters/appendices

2018-07-05 Thread Bill Allombert
Could you switch the web mirrors to use the multipage version, please? > Then I can drop the file from our releases. > > If Sphinx upstream improves the singlehtml output sufficiently that we > decide to include it in our package again, I don't think we'd want to > change the web mirrors again. Why we would not want that ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#886258: Clarify whether or not the Standards-Version field must be present, or lower Lintian tag severity

2018-07-18 Thread Bill Allombert
controlsyntax`. > > > > > > - :ref:`Dgit ` > > > > > > -- :ref:`Standards-Version ` (recommended) > > > +- :ref:`Standards-Version ` (mandatory) > > > > > > - :ref:`Build-Depends et al ` > > seconded. Seconded. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#459427: Patch seeking seconds on changelog vs. NEWS handling

2018-07-22 Thread Bill Allombert
For example pari-gp include both changelog.gz and NEW.gz and both are potentially useful to users without a copy of the source. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#459427: Patch seeking seconds on changelog vs. NEWS handling

2018-07-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 07:50:59AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Bill, > > On Sun 22 Jul 2018 at 07:45PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I have to disagree with that recommendation. It all depends on how the > > changelog is worded. Since we do not include a

Bug#459427: Patch seeking seconds on changelog vs. NEWS handling

2018-07-27 Thread Bill Allombert
vel changelog). In that sense, the latest draft of Sean is a step in the right direction. I might be wrong, but I do not think the majority of upstream changelog are source-level changelog, except for GNU software. Changing debhelper not to install upstream changelog by default will likely create more bugs than it will fix. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#904729: Policy 12.5: Must the license grant be included in debian/copyright?

2018-08-06 Thread Bill Allombert
hat statement, only to find packages being rejected from NEW because > their copyright files did not include license grants. We need to be > sure. I completely agree with Sean. This is a matter where policy must defer to the ftp-master team. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#904248: Beginnings of a patch to add netbase to build-essential

2018-08-07 Thread Bill Allombert
dency is needed.) > > > FWIW I disagree, I expect this is rather nice usage and so requiring a I assume you mean niche usage. > build-dep on netbase for the few packages that need this isn't a > problem. Plus, these files being conffiles means you can't actually > rely on finding anything specific in there anyway. Yes this is something I am concerned too. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation

2018-10-12 Thread Bill Allombert
t that sad truth is that the real issue is not that users do not use doc-base, but rather that they do not use the documentation provided in Debian in the first place, and instead reach to Google to locate some documentation online (which might not be for the same version, leading to conflict with upstream) ]] Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

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