On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:39:39PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Policy 7.2:
(The other three dependency fields, `Recommends', `Suggests' and
`Enhances', are only used by the various front-ends to `dpkg' such
as `dselect'.)
Since apt uses Recommends
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:29:27PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AFAIU, the base subsection was obsoleted with Etch (apparently, its
removal was discussed already in 1997), and (almost) all packages moved
to ordinary subsections, like other packages.
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:39:39PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Thanks for the report. I've applied a change to list apt and aptitude
as well as dselect to my arch repository.
Since the term apt really refers to the apt library and would
therefore
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Right. Here's an update; I think I've captured most of the discussion in
the thread so far. The following patch could in principle be applied
now, given seconds. Wordsmithing welcome, as I'm aware that this is a
rather dense recommendation; I'm also
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't have time to do the wordsmithing, but I can be your expert
witness. debian-installer (specifically, debootstrap) now simply
installs everything with Priority: required or Priority: important as
the base system, and has done so for some time. See
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:49:02AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't have time to do the wordsmithing, but I can be your expert
witness. debian-installer (specifically, debootstrap) now simply
installs everything with Priority: required or Priority:
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm. If this section is removed, then the definition of priorities
should indicate that priorities required plus important make up what's
installed as a base Debian system. I think this would be a bit unclear,
though (you have to know the definition in
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
As I report in #379140 (against dpkg), I have implemented Breaks in
dpkg. The attached patch is the corresponding change to the manual.
It would probably not be wise to apply
The workflow that we're currently using is to work in our personal arch
repositories and then merge into the central dbnpolicy repository when
other Policy maintainers have had a chance to review. Accordingly, to see
my work in progress, look at the arch repository:
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Bug#455602: debian-policy: Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now
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Bug#422552: Minor
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retitle 367984 clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs
Bug#367984: Policy 8.2 has unclear last sentence
Changed Bug title to `clarify handling of run-time and
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've gotten no feedback on this patch. I think it's fairly obvious and
plan to apply it unless there are some objections.
I never did get any feedback on this patch, but it reflects what's
currently implemented. I'm going ahead and applying it to my
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Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal
Policy currently reads:
| 8.2 Run-time support programs
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| If your package has some run-time support programs which use the
| shared library you must not put them in the shared library
| package. If you
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Bug#65577: [Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is not a part
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Taketoshi Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
=== the proposed patch on sgml for this modification ===
--- policy.sgml.orig Tue Jun 13 10:00:17 2000
+++ policy.sgml.proposed Tue Jun 13 10:05:22 2000
@@ -189,6 +189,12 @@
provide infrastructure for them (such as our bug-tracking
This is a Policy proposal that's sat in the Policy bug queue with wording
and seconds for quite some time. I'd like to resurrect it and resolve it
one way or the other.
Since this is a change to the Perl packaging policy, specifically for Perl
modules, I'm cc'ing the debian-perl list, as the
Please see this site in Subject
Hi,
On Jan 2, 2008 12:28 AM, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a Policy proposal that's sat in the Policy bug queue with wording
and seconds for quite some time. I'd like to resurrect it and resolve it
one way or the other.
I think the proposal is a good technical solution to the
The BROWSER environment variable proposal is another wording proposal
that's been sitting in the Policy bug queue for quite some time with
plenty of seconds and a concrete wording proposal. I'd like to resurrect
this discussion and put it permanently to rest one way or the other.
Copying Joey as
Hello,
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This proposal and patch looks good to me, although I'd prefer to see a few
more seconds before I queue it up for applying to Policy 3.7.4.
I can't really make
This is the last Policy bug I had tagged as wording. It started with a
proposal for a README.source file documenting how to do things with a
package that uses a non-trivial source format, and then expanded into
standardizing debian/rules targets for doing various things.
Having reviewed the
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Bug#250202: [PROPOSAL] debian/README.source file for packages with
non-trivial source
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