Bug#513955: debian-policy: do not require /etc/init.d/*.sh scripts to be sourced

2009-02-10 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Russ, Russ Allbery hat am Mon 02. Feb, 20:36 (-0800) geschrieben: Kel Modderman k...@otaku42.de writes: It is the opinion of myself and Petter Reinholdtsen, maintainers of the sysvinit package, that the last sentence of §9.3.1 of policy is no longer relevant and should be removed:

Bug#479080: debian-policy: Policy '3.8 Essential packages' does not explain when/why essential is neccessary

2008-08-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Russ, Russ Allbery schrieb am Sat 05. Jul, 13:50 (-0700): Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we can add wording that says that these criteria are useful while trying to decide whether a package should be made Essential or not. Once it is Essential, then

Bug#483418: debian-policy: Not limit dpkg-divert to install but valid also for upgrade in app. G

2008-07-07 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Russ, Russ Allbery schrieb am Sat 05. Jul, 15:49 (-0700): Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following example is provided with a sentence which seems erronous to me ATM : if [ install = $1 ]; then dpkg-divert --package smailwrapper --add --rename

Bug#483418: debian-policy: Not limit dpkg-divert to install but valid also for upgrade in app. G

2008-07-07 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Russ, Russ Allbery schrieb am Mon 07. Jul, 11:43 (-0700): Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery schrieb am Sat 05. Jul, 15:49 (-0700): I believe it's not permissible to divert the same file more than once. I don't know. It's possible and who should prohibit it? I'm

Bug#483418: debian-policy: Not limit dpkg-divert to install but valid also for upgrade in app. G

2008-06-07 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello, Olivier Berger schrieb am Wed 28. May, 20:32 (+0200): Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: minor In Appendix G - Diversions - overriding a package's version of a file (from old Packaging Manual), there's some misleading explanations on dpkg-divert preferred use in

Bug#403391: debian-policy: scripts as configuration files: should vs. must

2008-03-18 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Russ, Russ Allbery schrieb am Sun 16. Mar, 15:01 (-0700): Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is the patch that I'm applying. If anyone objects, yell now. Actually, looking at this further, I see the Policy was never updated to mention the /etc/cron.hourly directory. I'm

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

2008-01-08 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, Russ Allbery schrieb am Tue 01. Jan, 22:54 (-0800): + filedebian/README.source/file documentation file is + recommended. This file should explain how to do all of the + following: + enumlist + itemGenerate the fully patched source, in a form ready for

Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

2006-06-10 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Bill, Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:50:37PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:48:34PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 04:28:36AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: Date: [...] Talk to the dpkg maintainers--