Re: Bug#575639: Bug#567489: Clarify that Changed-By must have name and email address

Russ Allbery writes: > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index df6ae89..5a76cf3 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -2672,7 +2672,7 @@ Package: libc6 > > > The package maintainer's name and email address. The name > - should come first, then th

Bug#575639: Bug#567489: Clarify that Changed-By must have name and email address

Helps if I send this to the correct bug. Russ Allbery writes: > * maintainer-name-missing and uploader-name-missing are both automatic > rejects in the ftp-master checks, which makes them automatically > severity: serious in Lintian. That's not the specific one that you're > asking about,

Bug#104373: Subdirectory under /usr/lib/cgi-lib should be explicitly allowed

On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 12:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Rémi Perrot" writes: > > > In section 12.5 of the policy it like that it is not possible to put > > cgi script in /usr/lib/cgi-lib// > > > If this is true, we will have more and more file name conflict, and > > these conflict are quite ha

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 13:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > For background here, this bug is about permitting the splitting of the > architecture-independent headers for a library into a separate -headers > package rather than requiring (which the current Policy wording implies) > that they be in the

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Re: New script to check license usage

Brian Ryans writes: > I've got preliminary ideas running through my head involving your script > and popcon; next time I have network access (assuming the repo's > public), I'll check out a copy and go through it. Yup, it's the repository in the Vcs-Git header of the debian-policy package. > No

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Re: New script to check license usage

Quoting Russ Allbery on 2010-06-12 17:55:14: > any conceivable space savings here for anything short of the GPL is > going to vanish with the upload of a few new reasonable-sized games. Doh! Why didn't I think of that! > Maybe 3% of Debian binary packages plus saying that a majority (or > three-q

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Bug#555978: debian-policy: Forbid duplicate fields in control files

Russ Allbery writes: > Hm, actually, better (slightly less awkward, I think): > A paragraph must not contain more than one instance of a particular > field name. This has now been merged for the next release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#478295: Sha1 and sha256 in .changes and .dsc file

Russ Allbery writes: > Here is proposed wording to document those fields. This change also > reorders the list of fields in .dsc files to match the order in which > dpkg-dev writes them. (The actual sections are not reordered since that > would renumber them and break external cross-references

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Re: New script to check license usage

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 05:44:30PM -0500, Brian Ryans wrote: > Quoting Russ Allbery on 2010-06-09 13:36:22: > > The low bar for licenses included in common-licenses by license count is > > the GFDL, at 875 packages using it in some version. None of the licenses > > for which we have open bugs reac

Bug#104373: Subdirectory under /usr/lib/cgi-lib should be explicitly allowed

First off, I'm not sure what this discussion has to do with this proposal? It might just be a tangent prompted by seeing a mention of this part of Policy, which is fine, but I'm worried that I didn't explain the proposal very well, since this seems unrelated. Charles Plessy writes: > Le Sat, Jun

Bug#104373: Subdirectory under /usr/lib/cgi-lib should be explicitly allowed

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 06:03:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > If not, there is not much advantage to move them under /usr/lib as it is done > now. Most other parts for packaged web sites are already in > /usr/share/. For simple sites, having the CGIs in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ > makes the maintainer'

Bug#555978: debian-policy: Forbid duplicate fields in control files

On 12/06/10 19:35, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hm, actually, better (slightly less awkward, I think): > > A paragraph must not contain more than one instance of a particular > field name. Seconded as well. Emilio signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#104373: Subdirectory under /usr/lib/cgi-lib should be explicitly allowed

Le Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:35:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > Despite its age, this bug is rather straightforward and is something we > really should have fixed years ago. The current wording around locations > of CGI programs implies that subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin may not be > us

Bug#555978: debian-policy: Forbid duplicate fields in control files

Russ Allbery (13/06/2010): > Not for Policy work. Some people do, but I never check them. I > figure the consequences here just aren't enough for there to be much > risk of someone impersonating someone else, and there's always a > Policy maintainer looking over the change and making sure it mak

Bug#555978: debian-policy: Forbid duplicate fields in control files

Cyril Brulebois writes: > Charles Plessy (13/06/2010): >> This one is much clearer, thank you for the changes. I second them. > Need to sign your mail. Not for Policy work. Some people do, but I never check them. I figure the consequences here just aren't enough for there to be much risk of

Bug#555978: debian-policy: Forbid duplicate fields in control files

Charles Plessy (13/06/2010): > This one is much clearer, thank you for the changes. I second them. Need to sign your mail. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#555978: debian-policy: Forbid duplicate fields in control files

Le Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:35:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > A paragraph must not contain more than one instance of a particular > field name. Hi Russ, This one is much clearer, thank you for the changes. I second them. Thanks also to for the other answers, who made me progress