On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I like your proposed alternative. Maybe the policy could say that you
> "should" (in the policy sense) thoroughly analyze the consequences and
> alternatives before adding pre-depends, and that one way to do so (in
> a friendly advice sense) is to ask
Steve Langasek wrote:
> 1. get more eyeballs on the proposed change, to spot problems which the
> added pre-dep may cause
>
> 2. inform the wider Debian developer community about the change, so they
> can factor it into any plans they have for changing their *own* package
> relations
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:51:40AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.9.1.0
> Raphael Hertzog wrote[1]:
> > It has been discussed on -release, not on -devel:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2011/02/threads.html#00381
> >
> > (I don't think it matters mu
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> The reason
> we request peer review of Pre-Depends is that they have a cost and should
> not be abused.
Okay. That's not what policy §3.5 says; it does not say Pre-Depends should
or must be peer-reviewed or that one should examine all aspects when adding
them but simply
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Well, I want to interpret it as meaning *something* --- though I'm not
> filing RC bugs or anything. I had thought that the general rule is
> that violating a policy "should" is always a bug (either in your
> package or in policy), though not necessari
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> That's why it was discussed there. Otherwise it might well be the case
> that it would have been discussed on -devel.
Wait, how is that relevant at all? Is the point that the policy
manual is saying what you should do in the default case, and this is a
special one?
The
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > Please drop this link. It's really of no use to point people to
> > britney's code (note it's not the web version of the above link...).
>
> Et voilà ! (attached).
Thanks, applied.
Cheers,
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> # * Rework section on "sponsoring packages" and include a basic
> #checklist for the sponsor. Closes: #453313
> # * Update the "Debian Developer's Duties" chapter to be more explici
Le Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:55:39AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
> > If you want to see more details, you can look it up on
> > -merkel:/org/&ftp-debian-org;/testing/update_out/ (or
> > -in merkel:~aba/testing/update_out to see a setup with
> > -a
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.9.1.0
>
> Raphael Hertzog wrote[1]:
>
> > It has been discussed on -release, not on -devel:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2011/02/threads.html#00381
> >
> > (I don't think it matters much given that all
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