Russ Allbery writes:
> I agree that it's better to just make this a syntax error rather than
> trying to guess at what it might mean. So, seconded. With Colin and I,
> that's enough to commit it, but since this has been stalled for about four
> years, I wanted to raise it again on the list and
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 08:32:55 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index c1ff4b4..0f1dbf9 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -4628,7 +4628,7 @@ Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1), exim | mail-transport-agent
> Relationships may be restricted to a
Stefano Zacchiroli writes:
> Section 7.1 of the policy includes a description of
> architecture-specific dependencies, correctly adding the following
> constraint:
>> It is not permitted for some names to be prepended with exclamation
>> marks while others aren't.
> the reason being that the se
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:46:41PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli dijo [Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:46:05PM +0200]:
> > As per policy the empty architecture list has no defined semantics, I
> > guess that the only possible behaviours out there are the following:
> >
> > 1) require at l
Stefano Zacchiroli dijo [Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:46:05PM +0200]:
> (...)
> As per policy the empty architecture list has no defined semantics, I
> guess that the only possible behaviours out there are the following:
>
> 1) require at least one entry (as did by python-debian)
>
> 2) assume a defau
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:31:02AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Seconded in principle (modulo the tab damage in your patch), although
Ooops, sorry, I didn't notice it.
> I'm interested in the following points:
>
> * What packages violate this constraint right now?
A quick test is "grep '\[\]'
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:27:51PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Section 7.1 of the policy includes a description of
> architecture-specific dependencies, correctly adding the following
> constraint:
>
> > It is not permitted for some names to be prepended with exclamation
> > marks while oth
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.0.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Section 7.1 of the policy includes a description of
architecture-specific dependencies, correctly adding the following
constraint:
> It is not permitted for some names to be prepended with exclamation
> marks while others aren
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