Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 22:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org writes: > >> "RA" == Russ Allbery writes: > > > RA> No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is something > > that > > RA> we need to make technical Policy about. > > > RA> I'll leave this bug open f

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread Russ Allbery
jida...@jidanni.org writes: >> "RA" == Russ Allbery writes: > RA> No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is something that > RA> we need to make technical Policy about. > RA> I'll leave this bug open for a bit before closing in case someone else > RA> disagrees. > Well then

Re: Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread Ben Finney
jida...@jidanni.org writes: > > "RA" == Russ Allbery writes: > > RA> No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is > RA> something that we need to make technical Policy about. > > Well then please add in the manual that Debian officially has no > opinion on dates on the man pages,

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread jidanni
> "RA" == Russ Allbery writes: RA> No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is something that RA> we need to make technical Policy about. RA> I'll leave this bug open for a bit before closing in case someone else RA> disagrees. Well then please add in the manual that Debian o

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread Russ Allbery
jida...@jidanni.org writes: > The Debian Policy Manual should state what the preferred date on manual > pages should be, or wishes upstream would make it. No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is something that we need to make technical Policy about. I'll leave this bug open fo

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2010-11-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org Setting user to debian-pol...@packages.debian.org (was r...@debian.org). > limit package debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currently set to '

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread jidanni
X-debbugs-Cc: man...@packages.debian.org, rad...@cox.net Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-docs.html The Debian Policy Manual should state what the preferred date on manual pages should be, or wishes upstream would make it.

Re: Source architecture field?

2010-11-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 19:51:17 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 07:45:16PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > > On 11/25/2010 07:18 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:25:35 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > >> In #509702, Philipp Kern says that a particular packa

Re: Source architecture field?

2010-11-25 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 07:45:16PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > On 11/25/2010 07:18 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:25:35 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > >> In #509702, Philipp Kern says that a particular package's list of > >> architectures should be specified in the source stanz

Re: Source architecture field?

2010-11-25 Thread Luk Claes
On 11/25/2010 07:18 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:25:35 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: >> In #509702, Philipp Kern says that a particular package's list of >> architectures should be specified in the source stanza of the control >> file, not in the binary packages' desc

Re: Source architecture field?

2010-11-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:25:35 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > In #509702, Philipp Kern says that a particular package's list of > architectures should be specified in the source stanza of the control > file, not in the binary packages' descriptions, to avoid any attempt > to build the package

Source architecture field?

2010-11-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
Hi, In #509702, Philipp Kern says that a particular package's list of architectures should be specified in the source stanza of the control file, not in the binary packages' descriptions, to avoid any attempt to build the package on the rest of the architectures. While this sounds as a very sensi