Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

Santiago Vila writes: > However: > I wonder if we really want to do all that in 2017. The staff-writable > /usr/local for a "sysadmin assistant" was an interesting idea twenty > years ago. Today, we would give a sysadmin assistant an entire virtual > machine to play with, and

Bug#786470: debian-policy: [copyright-format] Add an optional “License-Grant” field

On 03-Aug-2017, Ben Finney wrote: > On 01-Aug-2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > > 1) the patch needs to be rebased against current policy > > I'll take care of that in a few days. I have updated my changes by rebasing onto current ‘master’ (commit hash ‘06f7d27ac0e6aea9’). The patch is attached to

Bug#871067: developers-reference: FTBFS: Error: xelatex compilation failed

Source: developers-reference Version: 3.4.18 Severity: serious Tags: buster sid User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20170805 qa-ftbfs Justification: FTBFS on amd64 Hi, During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on amd64. Relevant part (hopefully): >

Bug#845255: debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications

Paul Gevers writes: > It has been a while since the first version of the "Best practices for > packaging database applications" was drafted by Sean Finney as the > creator of dbconfig-common. The discussion on the document has died down > a long time ago, but as the new (since

Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 04:22:03PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote: > > So, if you want to count votes: I am working in teams (mainly Debian > > Astro), and I would favour keeping it -- > > Perfectly fine, thanks for adding your point of view. > > (And just to be sure: The proposal is not to

Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 08:03:23AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: retitle -1 Transitioning perms of /usr/local > > Hello Santiago, > > The TC decision in #484841 is not yet reflected in Policy. > > We could close the bug by simply dropping the requirement that > /usr/local be

Processed: severity of 776557 is wishlist

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > severity 776557 wishlist Bug #776557 [debian-policy] Less ambiguous guidance on Priority: important Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 776557:

Bug#835451: debian-policy: Building as root should be discouraged

On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 03:42:34PM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 03:43:56PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > I am not saying that the build target must not be empty. I can be empty but > > the build-a ... build-n dependecies have to be moved away from the binary > > target and

Processed: block 684126 with 316521

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > block 684126 with 316521 Bug #684126 [debian-policy] debian-policy: clarification needed for handling of directories used by maintainer scripts 684126 was not blocked by any bugs. 684126 was not blocking any bugs. Added blocking bug(s) of

Processed: tagging 630174

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 630174 + patch Bug #630174 [debian-policy] debian-policy: forbid installation into /lib64 Added tag(s) patch. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 630174:

Processed: retitle 790949 to Restarting daemons when thier plugins change

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 790949 Restarting daemons when thier plugins change Bug #790949 [debian-policy] conditional-restart from postinst and related scripts of plugin packages Changed Bug title to 'Restarting daemons when thier plugins change' from

Processed: severity of 299007 is normal

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > severity 299007 normal Bug #299007 [debian-policy] Transitioning perms of /usr/local Bug #538392 [debian-policy] Transitioning perms of /usr/local Severity set to 'normal' from 'wishlist' Severity set to 'normal' from 'wishlist' > thanks Stopping

Processed: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

Processing control commands: > retitle -1 Transitioning perms of /usr/local Bug #299007 [debian-policy] base-files: Insecure PATH in /root/.profile Bug #538392 [debian-policy] Should /usr/local be writable by group staff? Changed Bug title to 'Transitioning perms of /usr/local' from 'base-files:

Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

control: retitle -1 Transitioning perms of /usr/local Hello Santiago, The TC decision in #484841 is not yet reflected in Policy. We could close the bug by simply dropping the requirement that /usr/local be group-writeable by staff, but Russ says that you would like your transition plan to be

Processed: retitle 870899 to devref: priority:extra is deprecated, please stops suggesting it

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 870899 devref: priority:extra is deprecated, please stops suggesting > it Bug #870899 [developers-reference] devref: priority:extra is deprecated, please stops uggesting it Changed Bug title to 'devref: priority:extra is deprecated,

Bug#870915: debian-policy: [5.6.30] Testsuite: There are much more defined values

Package: debian-policy Version: 4.0.1.0 Severity: normal Hi, In 5.6.30. Testsuite ... Currently, the only defined value is autopkgtest. Which is not true, because we have autodep8. Look to: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/tree/checks/testsuite.pm#n60 And if you want to use

Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 19:10:36 -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 12:54:15AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Except for the last dpkg which should probably be dpkg-source, I do > > like this version better. > > > > Also perhaps worth mentioning that dpkg-source will remove the

Bug#870899: devref: priority:extra is deprecated, please stops uggesting it

Package: developers-reference Starting with Policy 4.0.1 the Priority:extra is deprecated. https://browse.dgit.debian.org/debian-policy.git/commit/?id=4b3e61ac3fa06d8b82433e09a76f42a4f8859306 Therefore, please stop recommending/suggesting it in devref §6.7.7 (best practices for transitional