Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2024-02-23 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 + pending On Sun 10 Sep 2023 at 10:45am -07, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > >> This patch from a while back is still waiting for one more second before >> it can be merged for the next Policy release. It previously got one >> second from Wouter. I revised the

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2023-09-10 Thread Edward Little
Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 1:42 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > This patch from a while back is still waiting for one more second before > it can be merged for the next Policy release. It previously got one > second from Wouter. I

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2023-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > This patch from a while back is still waiting for one more second before > it can be merged for the next Policy release. It previously got one > second from Wouter. I revised the patch to mention the experimental > suite as well as the backports suites. Argh, wrong

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2023-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
This patch from a while back is still waiting for one more second before it can be merged for the next Policy release. It previously got one second from Wouter. I revised the patch to mention the experimental suite as well as the backports suites. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2022-09-26 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 10:15:07AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Experimental is different because it is an incomplete distribution, > which needs to default to using packages from unstable except if > build-depends explicitly lists versions that are only available in > experimental. [...]

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2022-09-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 07:11:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 07:17:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Wouter Verhelst writes: > > >>> Thanks, yeah, I missed that. I'll have a stab at a patch some time soon > >>> (probably after debconf

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2022-09-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 10:16:12AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 04:17:04PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 at 19:11:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > I also reworded the paragraph about backports to hopefully address > > > Holger's reading. It's

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2022-09-24 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 04:17:04PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 at 19:11:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I also reworded the paragraph about backports to hopefully address > > Holger's reading. It's just trying to say that backports uses aptitude in > > the normal way and

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2022-09-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 at 19:11:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I also reworded the paragraph about backports to hopefully address > Holger's reading. It's just trying to say that backports uses aptitude in > the normal way and doesn't do anything special to transform the > alternative. It's

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2022-09-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 07:17:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Wouter Verhelst writes: >>> Thanks, yeah, I missed that. I'll have a stab at a patch some time soon >>> (probably after debconf though) >> Here, a couple of years later, is a patch that does this, and

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2022-09-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 07:17:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > +The autobuilders for the Debian backports suite do not perform this > +transformation and instead use the full alternatives list to resolve > +dependencies. this sounds like they install all build depends, incl alternative ones?!

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2022-09-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 07:17:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:05:42AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Wouter Verhelst writes: > > >>> -policy: this is a question that has come up before > >>>

Bug#968226: Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote

2022-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:05:42AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Wouter Verhelst writes: >>> -policy: this is a question that has come up before >>> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/12/msg00470.html is >>> another example that springs to mind, but I'm pretty