Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list

2008-01-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Hi I think policy should include some words on the usage of Mailinglists as a Maintainer: address. The current 3.3 The maintainer of a package reads ------ Every package must have a Debian maintainer (the maintainer may be one person or a group of

Bug#458385: New version of Artistic License

2008-01-09 Thread Allison Randal
Russ Allbery wrote: Licenses are included in common-licenses primarily on the basis of how commonly they're used in the archive. Currently, there are only about five packages in the archive covered by this license, so I don't believe this is warranted at this time. Basically, the license

Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list

2008-01-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote: I propose to add, someone please fix up en_GANNEFF: ---+++--- If the Maintainer address points to a mailing list then that list must be configured to accept mail from those role accounts in Debian used to send automated mails regarding the package.

Bug#250202: debian/README.source file for packages with non-trivial source

2008-01-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:36:07PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The rest looks good and I agree that such a source is useful, but it should also be allowed to refer to a central document like /u/s/d/dpatch/README.source. I expect that many README.source

Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list

2008-01-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11259 March 1977, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote: ---+++--- If the Maintainer address points to a mailing list then that list must be configured to accept mail from those role accounts in Debian used to send automated mails regarding the package. This

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Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list

2008-01-09 Thread Luk Claes
Joerg Jaspert wrote: Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Hi I think policy should include some words on the usage of Mailinglists as a Maintainer: address. The current 3.3 The maintainer of a package reads Additionally I would like: +++---+++ If the Maintainer: field points to

Bug#458385: New version of Artistic License

2008-01-09 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Russ Allbery dijo [Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:16:13AM -0800]: I'd like to request the addition of the file: http://www.perlfoundation.org/attachment/legal/artistic-2_0.txt as Artistic-2 in /usr/share/common-licenses/. Licenses are included in common-licenses primarily on the basis of

Bug#458385: New version of Artistic License

2008-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: Licenses are included in common-licenses primarily on the basis of how commonly they're used in the archive. Currently, there are only about five packages in the archive covered by this license, so I don't believe this is

Bug#458385: New version of Artistic License

2008-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many Perl modules are just licensed under the same terms as Perl itself, so as soon as Perl is released under this license, we will have several hundreds of packages automagically under it. Of course, this will require updating/changing many of them (as

Bug#458385: New version of Artistic License

2008-01-09 Thread Allison Randal
Russ Allbery wrote: Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many Perl modules are just licensed under the same terms as Perl itself, so as soon as Perl is released under this license, we will have several hundreds of packages automagically under it. Of course, this will require

Bug#458385: New version of Artistic License

2008-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perl 6 is already distributed under version 2.0, currently included in the Parrot package. As are over a hundred Perl 6 modules, currently included in the Pugs package. We haven't split them out into separate Debian packages yet, but will in the next 6

Re: priorities

2008-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:38:50PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: We have: required/essential -- stuff that can't be removed: libc, dpkg, etc important -- the rest of base, stuff necessary to bootstrap and recover a usable and useful system I have to admit that I