Mismatch between documentation and reality: Valid-Until

2017-01-09 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, dak and https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat seem to disagree on the definition of the Valid-Until field. dak writes "UTC" as the timezone into the Release file, where the repository format references policy 4.4 but states that it has to be always in UTC. The example given hence state

Re: Mismatch between documentation and reality: Valid-Until

2017-01-09 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 02:49:04PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > Hi, > > dak and https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat seem to disagree on the > definition of the Valid-Until field. dak writes "UTC" as the timezone into > the Release file, where the repository format references policy 4.4 but >

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal [ "version" is a horrible search term, hopefully I did not miss any other report about this. ] Hello, Over time, several suffixes to version numbers have evolved to denote uploads outside the regular, incremental upload to unstable. In my opinion the p

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 19:15:57 +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: normal > [ > "version" is a horrible search term, hopefully I did not miss any > other report about this. > ] I think this is actually #542288? But I'll let the editors decide. > Over time,

Processed (with 1 error): Re: Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > severity -1 wishlist Bug #850729 [debian-policy] debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' > tags -1 patch Bug #850729 [debian-policy] debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes Added tag(s)

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tags -1 patch Control: merge -1 542288 Guillem Jover writes: > I think this is actually #542288? But I'll let the editors decide. Yup, this is basically the same thing. > I've actually changed my mind over this one since seconding #542288, > which I shoul

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 07:15:57PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > ~deb+ > Backport to the given (num1) distribution. ~deb+ is used for "backports" of something to stable through point release or security, where that's more convenient than cherry picking a patch and upload a +deb+. Back

Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, limit package to debian-policy ...

2017-01-09 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#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
Guillem Jover wrote... > I think this is actually #542288? But I'll let the editors decide. It is. So much for the feeling "It was hard to believe nobody came up with this beforehand". Also, there's quite a lot to read now. > > +nmu Non-maintainer upload for native packages > > I've actually ch