Bug#509935: rejected packages

2010-06-03 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 03/06/10 03:44, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam C Powell IV hazel...@debian.org writes: That would make the name different from what's in my GPG key, but I suppose I could add an additional name to the key... Note my email From address doesn't have the comma or full stop, because I find the

Bug#562506: init scripts should not use set -e

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:42:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Here is proposed wording, which hopefully reflects the subsequent discussion. I'm looking for seconds. [...] Seconded. Thanks! That's two, so I'm merging for the next release. -- Russ

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2010-06-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
The previous discussion on this bug didn't reach a final consensus on wording, but I still believe we have a consensus that this is the right general direction. Here's an updated patch that includes the permission suggested by Steve Langasek for maintainer scripts to abort for high-priority

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 00:06:39 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: From a comment somewhere else I think you understand it now, but anyway just to make sure, it allows adding new architectures in dpkg w/o needing to recreate the source package from its

Bug#579457: debian-policy: finer granularity for perlapi-*

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes: Yeah, I suppose that goes without saying. I seem to go into the details a bit too much. Final version with the nonzero thing removed. I'm looking for seconds. This is now merged for the next Policy release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

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2010-06-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

2010-06-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 12:51:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes: what does this change mean for essential packages that want to prompt the user when debconf isn't available? E.g. libc6.postinst tries to use debconf, and if that's not available and

Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

2010-06-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:34:32 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm looking for seconds or further discussion if people don't believe that this is the right direction to go. diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index af00c0e..3f6b82d 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -3557,15

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:56:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Okay, here's another try at this patch that removes some extraneous information that it sounds like we shouldn't get into, from this message and your other message, and tries to simplify the wording to address the issue raised in

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:56:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: p In the main filedebian/control/file file in the source -package, this field may contain the special value -ttany/tt, the special value ttall/tt, or a list of

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 13:09:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:56:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: p In the main filedebian/control/file file in the source - package, this field may contain the special value -

Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:34 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The previous discussion on this bug didn't reach a final consensus on wording, but I still believe we have a consensus that this is the right general direction. Here's an updated patch that includes the permission suggested by Steve

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 22:01 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi! On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:56:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Okay, here's another try at this patch that removes some extraneous information that it sounds like we shouldn't get into, from this message and your other message, and

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:56:30AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Okay, here's another try at this patch that removes some extraneous information that it sounds like we shouldn't get into, from this message and your other message, and tries to simplify the wording to address the issue raised in

Bug#569174: [PATCH] Correction of RFC number for date format -- bug #569174.

2010-06-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 10:16:55AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : If someone put this into SGML, I'd second it. I also like the idea, so I prepared a patch (attached) Cheers, -- Charles From f1c872817b2787f18f0a8f7019274f1be49e2a4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy

Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:34:32AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm looking for seconds or further discussion if people don't believe that this is the right direction to go. diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index af00c0e..3f6b82d 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -3557,15

Bug#569174: [PATCH] Correction of RFC number for date format -- bug #569174.

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I also like the idea, so I prepared a patch (attached) Thank you! RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs described by this paragraph (§4.4 in Policy 3.8.4) use four digits. This patch replaces the reference to the RFC

Bug#569174: [PATCH] Correction of RFC number for date format -- bug #569174.

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 18:31 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I also like the idea, so I prepared a patch (attached) Thank you! RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs described by this paragraph (§4.4 in Policy 3.8.4)

Bug#569174: [PATCH] Correction of RFC number for date format -- bug #569174.

2010-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: + exampleday-of-week, dd month hh:mm:ss +/example + where: + list compact=compact + itemday-of week is one of: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun/item + itemdd is a one- or two-digit day of the month

Bug#569174: [PATCH] Correction of RFC number for date format -- bug #569174.

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: + exampleday-of-week, dd month hh:mm:ss +/example + where: + list compact=compact +itemday-of week is one of: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun/item +itemdd is a

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: Yes, dpkg-source will reject such package. The check has always been there, it just never got relaxed when introducing the generic wildcard support. This is the actual error when using as value for example “any linux-any”: dpkg-source: error:

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2010-06-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: The previous discussion on this bug didn't reach a final consensus on wording, but I still believe we have a consensus that this is the right general direction. Here's an updated patch that includes the permission suggested by Steve Langasek for

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2010-06-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#579461: debian-policy: perl: ExtUtils::MakeMaker and PREFIX

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes: I would like to see all the packages use DESTDIR so that the patch could be removed. As a first step, lintian was recently changed to warn about overriding PREFIX. See #568748 and

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2010-06-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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2010-06-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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