Re: [proposal] remove the requirement to compress documentation

2012-02-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> There's more than just my /usr. This system runs off a 160GB SSD, so > 500MB is more like 0.5% of the available storage space here. > 160GB is in the low end of the available storage of modern systems, and > probably (gut feeling) about average of systems bought in the past few > years (my thre

Reference copyright-format from Policy

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
I've applied the following patch to Debian Policy to reference the copyright format specification. commit 4f24058d5be9b9f5376cda90e4c03e66690ea6dd Author: Russ Allbery Date: Tue Feb 21 13:44:39 2012 -0800 Reference copyright-format from Debian Policy diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml

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2012-02-21 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 '

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2012-02-21 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 '

DEP-5: Patches pushed to the Debian Policy repository

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
I've applied a subsequent patch to reformat copyright-format to avoid lines longer than 79 characters to make it easier to maintain going forward, and to fix one section that wasn't indented to follow the XML structure. I've also changed "signaled" to "signalled" on further consideration since Bri

Re: DEP-5: Updates from a general editing pass

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > @@ -869,8 +908,12 @@ Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts > GFDL > > > -GNU Free Documentation License 1.0, or > -http://spdx.org/licenses/GFDL-1.1";>1.1. > +GNU Free Documentation

DEP-5: Updates from a general editing pass

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
I've finished reading through the entire current copyright format document and am applying the following editorial changes to clarify wording and to add a few more examples and repetition of key information to make the document easier to follow. I should say up-front that I realize that this is so

DEP-5: Updates from recent discussions

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
I am applying the following patch to the copyright format document in Debian Policy to roll up changes from recent discussions. This includes the following changes: Clarify that this document does not supersede or modify the requirements in Policy and that use of the specification is

DEP-5: General status and upcoming Policy release

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello everyone, As previously announced on debian-policy and a few other lists, I am going to upload Debian Policy 3.9.3 tomorrow. As previously announced, this will be the first release with a version of the machine-readable debian/copyright specification that can be considered official. It wil

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2012-02-21 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 '

Re: [proposal] remove the requirement to compress documentation

2012-02-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:01:42AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:09:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > Debian is used on small systems where use

Re: [proposal] remove the requirement to compress documentation

2012-02-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:09:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Debian is used on small systems where users still like to have > > > documentation, and > > > support zlib compre