Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:29:13 +0900 Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: here is a new version trying to addres Simon's and Guillem's comments. By the way, isn't Package-Type: udeb completely redundant with Section: debian-installer ? Different purposes. udeb is a file format, allowed to

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 09:07:19 +, Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:29:13 +0900 Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: By the way, isn't Package-Type: udeb completely redundant with Section: debian-installer ? Different purposes. Right. Where using Section in general

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: here is a new version trying to addres Simon's and Guillem's comments. Seconded. In response to the other follow-up, I don't think this is the right place (or bug) to discuss udeb package behavior or what portions of Policy they comply with. -- Russ

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Russ Allbery wrote: In response to the other follow-up, I don't think this is the right place (or bug) to discuss udeb package behavior or what portions of Policy they comply with. Surely it is relevant to people reading policy that it does not

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: In response to the other follow-up, I don't think this is the right place (or bug) to discuss udeb package behavior or what portions of Policy they comply with. Surely it is relevant to people reading policy that it does not comply with them all (or in other words that

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-12 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:29:13 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: here is a new version trying to addres Simon's and Guillem's comments. @@ -2671,6 +2671,7 @@ Package: libc6 itemqref id=f-DescriptionttDescription/tt/qref (mandatory)/item itemqref

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:58:31AM +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit : On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 07:32:54 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: p Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from the source package, considering every architecture. The

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-11 Thread Simon McVittie
On 11/01/13 12:05, Charles Plessy wrote: + separated by spaces. Other space-separated values may be added. Who may add (define) them? I assume the intention here is that (using RFC 2119 language for clarity) readers of a .dsc MUST allow (and ignore) fifth and subsequent

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-11 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 21:05:21 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:58:31AM +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit : It will only list binary packages, not all the information for the source package is currently available from other fields in the .dsc file, but it could be exported

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, here is a new version trying to addres Simon's and Guillem's comments. By the way, isn't Package-Type: udeb completely redundant with Section: debian-installer ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles @@ -2671,6 +2671,7 @@ Package: libc6 itemqref

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-09 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org retitle 697433 New fields Package-List and Package-Type. usertags 697433 normative discussion thanks Le Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit : I don't think the description for the Package-List field should document the valid

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 07:32:54 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit : I don't think the description for the Package-List field should document the valid package types. There's already a Package-Type field for that (defaults to

Re: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 01/06/2013 01:12 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: we are documenting in the Policy the Package-List field of the Debian source control files. Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from the source package. The first line of the field value is empty. Each one of the

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 09:12:11AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : we are documenting in the Policy the Package-List field of the Debian source control files. Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from the source package. The first line of the field value is

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: After experimenting by uploading a package without the Package-List field, I see that it is not mandatory. But the Policy also distinguishes recommended from other fields (for which nothing is mentioned). Given that it is there by default, I propose

Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear FTP team and everybody, we are documenting in the Policy the Package-List field of the Debian source control files. Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from the source package. The first line of the field value is empty. Each one of the next lines describe one

Re: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (06/01/2013): I do not know if this field should be marked mandatory, recommended or optional. Is this field strictly necessary for uploads ? I'm not sure how we could be making this field mandatory all of a sudden. (Think uploads to {o,s}-p-u, for a start.)