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

2018-02-11 Thread gustavo panizzo
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.3.0 Severity: wishlist Hello The machines I use to develop Debian run stable, with unstable schroots/pbuilders. While I can configure /etc/apt/preferences to install debian-policy from unstable (and I've done it for every previous machine I had) it will be a

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

2018-02-11 Thread gustavo panizzo
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 06:54:57PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Gustavo, frankly, and really just curious, but… what's the point of this backport? you can always read the latest version at https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ (ok, I see this needs network, but…) When I package something

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

2018-02-11 Thread gustavo panizzo
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 09:04:16AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: Hello, On Sun, Feb 11 2018, gustavo panizzo wrote: I've never done a backport myself, but if you policy folks don't see any problem with the idea I'm willing to do the backport myself. You are welcome to try,

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

2018-02-11 Thread gustavo panizzo
Sorry for the noise policy folks, I'll use curl https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/upgrading-checklist.txt | less for the time being After Buster is released I'll start to provide the backport, I think is better to spend my Debian time doing something else than backporting sphinx