Bug#670429: debian-policy: section tasks is missing

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:57:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Jonathan Nieder writes: > > > It's a small thing, but this makes the commas italic, which looks > > especially strange in the text rendering. Do we care that the section > > names are italic? My preference would be to make them

Bug#670429: debian-policy: section tasks is missing

2012-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > It's a small thing, but this makes the commas italic, which looks > especially strange in the text rendering. Do we care that the section > names are italic? My preference would be to make them plain text for > readability. Yeah, that's a good idea. Charles, could yo

Bug#670429: debian-policy: section tasks is missing

2012-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Charles Plessy wrote: > thank you for your report. Indeed, the section 'tasks' is missing. > > I have reviewed the current list, and in addition to 'tasks' missing, I found > that it was not perfectly sorted in alphabetical order. [...] > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -714,21 +7

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2012-07-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#670429: debian-policy: section tasks is missing

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 670429 normative severity 670429 normal tags 670429 patch thanks Le Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:56:09PM +0200, Carsten Hey a écrit : > > "2.4 Sections" is missing the section 'tasks': > > projectb=> select s.section, s.created from section s where s.se

Re: Bug#452393: [PROPOSAL] clarify overstep between "required" and "important" priorities

2012-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > §3.7 defines the "base system" as required plus important pacakges. > With this patch, we have the nice definition that "required" implements > the "essential" part, and "important" implements the rest of the base. > I think that it explains better the role of these prior

Re: Bug#452393: [PROPOSAL] clarify overstep between "required" and "important" priorities

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:46:10PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > > Good catch. That means the wording needs a little more work, to > explain that only one of 'mawk' and 'gawk' (and one of 'sysv-rc' and > 'file-rc', etc) has to be of priority required. (*) > > Maybe we should define it as a

Bug#654958: debian-policy: Document VCS fields.

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:04:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Jonathan Nieder writes: > > > Thanks again for your help. I've applied all suggested changes. > > Interdiff and updated patch attached. > > Looks good to me -- seconded. Hello everybody, Formally speaking, we need one more per

Bug#681289: debian-policy: Changelog and copyright should be package metadata

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 08:46:03AM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog a écrit : > We should thus modify the policy to say: > > 1/ that the changelog and copyright files ought to be installed in the >DEBIAN directory along with the other control files > >(this will require changes in dh_installdocs an

Bug#681289: debian-policy: Changelog and copyright should be package metadata

2012-07-13 Thread Carsten Hey
* Raphael Hertzog [2012-07-13 09:00 +0200]: > Guillem introduced the --control-list and --control-show interfaces … > > If … , we should IMO create a new package that will hook into dpkg > --post-invoke and … > > … should create dpkg --changelog and dpkg --copyright … [epoch:]upstream_version[-deb

Bug#681289: debian-policy: Changelog and copyright should be package metadata

2012-07-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: > HOWEVER, I think putting those files in a clear place on the file system > so that they can be easily read via a pager by the end user without using > dpkg-query commands is not only mandatory for the transition period but > mandatory permanently. I would