Bug#533287: [PATCH v2] Only the owner of a configuration file should modify it

2012-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Policy §10.7.4 explains: > If it is desirable for [...] packages to share a configuration > file and for all of the related packages to be able to modify > that configuration file, then the following should be done: > [...] > ii. The owning package should also pro

Bug#533287: [PATCH v2] Only the owner of a configuration file should modify it

2012-08-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: > We may have existing special cases where we've ignored this problem for > reasons of expediency, but I don't think that's a good reason to water > down the requirement globally. Thanks. How about this? My impression is that this "must" has been treated as a "should" in pra

Translation update of the developers-reference (Was: Bug#679562: developers-reference: note that it is possible for Release Team to override urgency)

2012-08-13 Thread David Prévot
Hi Chris, Hideki, Le 08/08/2012 21:48, David Prévot a écrit : > I'd be happy to poke translators And here I am, could you please update your translation in order to push the last up to date version in the upcoming Wheezy? > po4a/po/de.po: 1319 translated messages, 22 fuzzy translations, 2 > un

Bug#533287: [PATCH v2] Only the owner of a configuration file should modify it

2012-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > My impression is that this "must" has been treated as a "should" in > practice, and I don't think it's because of the detail of wording > addressed by the first hunk of the patch below. The interoperability > problems caused by violating this piece of policy are subtle,

policy delegation ping and call for help

2012-08-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Dear Policy hackers, during a periodic review of outstanding delegations, the auditors, observed that the delegation for the Policy editors is scattered through several "patch" mails over ~6 years and across several different mailing list. I'd rather prefer clean slate delegations, and to achiev

Re: policy delegation ping and call for help

2012-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > What best occasion, to check if someone would like to step back as > editor and if others would like to step in as full editors? Definitely agreed. > Concretely: > - If you are currently a (delegated) Policy editor, please reconfirm > your interest in such a role

Re: policy delegation ping and call for help

2012-08-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:38:57PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Dear Policy hackers, > during a periodic review of outstanding delegations, the auditors, > observed that the delegation for the Policy editors is scattered through > several "patch" mails over ~6 years and across several diffe

Re: policy delegation ping and call for help

2012-08-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody. I would like to serve as a Policy editor. I think that I have a good understanding by experience of the Policy changes process, of more than half of the Policy chapters, of DocBook syntax, of how the debian-policy package builds and of how its contents are displayed on www.debian

Re: policy delegation ping and call for help

2012-08-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stefano Zacchiroli (lea...@debian.org) [120813 20:39]: > - If you are currently a (delegated) Policy editor, please reconfirm > your interest in such a role, by mailing me and/or this list. (For the > avoidance of doubt, I'm Bcc:-ing all current delegates.) Even if I hadn't been doing much,