On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 06:54:12PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: > > 1) As written, the policy change induce maintainers to make changes to their > > packages that will cause them to have a bug. This is not acceptable. > > > > 2) As discussed previously, there are ways to tweak the process to > > avoid this bug while keeping the advantage of this change, and so it should > > be done. > > No, it's not true. Quoting debhelper's changelog: > * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into > maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency > via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. > > So package have the required dependency and partial upgrades are correctly > supported.
That is very good news, but since use of dh_installinfo is not mandatory, the correct dependency to add should be documented. > we only describe the currently wanted behaviour. > And we should not enshrine in policy such transition details, The current wanted behavior for squeeze includes the dependency so it should be mentionned. There are lot of example of transition plans being mentionned in policy. > > 3) Debian policy is not dpkg or any other package documentation. The mere > > fact a package change its interface is not ground to update policy without > > following the policy process (I am not claiming it ever happened). > > What are we doing here if not following the process? (In other words this > remark is useless) Or rather it serves a purpose in a different channel this message is also a part of. Sorry for the confusion. > > 4) While I have no technical objection to the 'START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' / > > 'END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' bits, currently at least one program generating info > > files > > (debiandoc2info) does not follow them. Packages using it to generate their > > info > > files would have a bug under this policy without an easy way to fix it, so > > maybe it is a bit premature. > > You should consider switching away from debiandoc anyway (much like policy > wants to move away from it). Thanks you, but I like debiandoc very much. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
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