Bug#383803: Re: Bug#383708: exim4-config: SPF-related documentation issues

2006-08-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:12:06PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
 On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:26:30PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
  On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
   I'm afraid I don't know apt-listchanges.
  
  Buggy as a june meadow and suboptimally maintained. Things can change
  soon, as apt-listchanges has just gotten a new maintainer.
 
 Lack of support for this setup isn't a bug;

This setup refers to binary packages built from the same source
having distinct NEWS.Debian files, a feature which is supported by
Debhelper, and usage of Debhelper is recommended in Developer's
Reference 6.3.4.

If you still disagree, are you ok with referring this to the ctte?

 NEWS.Debian is defined as having the same format as a Debian changelog,
 and the format for changelog is defined in the policy manual.
 apt-listchanges honors that specification, and doesn't care about the
 conventional itemization, though you are required by policy to start each
 line with whitespace.

I was not aware of the last part of the sentence, and have fixed the
NEWS.Debian files in the exim4 package accordingly. Thanks for the
nudge to reference the docs again.

Greetings
Marc

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Bug#383803: Re: Bug#383708: exim4-config: SPF-related documentation issues

2006-08-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:48:13AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:12:06PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
  On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:26:30PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
   On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
I'm afraid I don't know apt-listchanges.
   
   Buggy as a june meadow and suboptimally maintained. Things can change
   soon, as apt-listchanges has just gotten a new maintainer.
  
  Lack of support for this setup isn't a bug;
 
 This setup refers to binary packages built from the same source
 having distinct NEWS.Debian files, a feature which is supported by
 Debhelper, and usage of Debhelper is recommended in Developer's
 Reference 6.3.4.

It supports the same thing for changelogs, but I don't find this to be a
very good idea in practice.  We may consider NEWS.Debian a different case,
but the above isn't a very solid argument.  I suggest holding a discussion
rather than filing bugs.

 If you still disagree, are you ok with referring this to the ctte?

Chill out and read point #1 on http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte .

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