Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.

2010-08-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:05 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:23:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > > > I have been reading §5.1 (Syntax of control files) many times recently, and > > would like propose clarifications about a couple of points. If consensus > > e

Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.

2010-08-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:23:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > I have been reading §5.1 (Syntax of control files) many times recently, and > would like propose clarifications about a couple of points. If consensus > emerges, > I will write a patch. > > > Non-wrappable field values

Bug#218897: Explicitily disallow adding local diversion by package

2010-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > Ok, even if this has been merged already and closed, I've been meaning > to mention something I've considered implementing. dpkg-divert would get > the package name from the DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE environment variable, > which would change the default of local. Specifyi

Bug#218897: Explicitily disallow adding local diversion by package

2010-08-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 10:30:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 9fe7158..c7f2a4e 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -1214,9 +1214,11 @@ > > > > - You should not use dpkg-divert on a file > - belonging to an

Re: Build-depends for arch independent files

2010-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon McVittie writes: > On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 at 20:22:17 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: >> "This means that architecture restrictions must not be used in binary >> relationship fields for architecture-independent packages (Architecture: >> all)." > > This just forbids the following: > >

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-25 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 21.08.2010 08:36, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.txt b/virtual-package-names-list.txt index 9ba66e5..2308d39 100644 --- a/virtual-package-names-list.txt +++ b/virtual-package-names-list.txt @@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ News and M

Bug#592610: 7.3/7.4/7.6: Usage of Breaks and Conflicts unclear and contradictive

2010-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > [ sorry for not proper 'mail-reply', used wrong mail address before ] > >> Huh? The presense of Replaces allows the two to be both unpacked. The >> Repalces specifically disables the file conflict. > > Replaces is one-way dependency, Breaks is two-way one. If I unp