Bug#610083: Remove requirement to document upstream source location in debian/copyright ?

2017-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > On Sat, Aug 26 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Seconded with or without the following nit. >> Minor wording nit: I would put a period after "obtained" and make the >> next part a separate sentence. ("The copyright file should include a >> name or contact address for the upst

Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, limit package to debian-policy, tagging 679751 ...

2017-08-26 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 spwhit...@spwhitton.name). > limit package debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currentl

Bug#679751: Patch to close out this bug

2017-08-26 Thread David Bremner
Sean Whitton writes: > +.. _s-nonexistent: > + > +Non-existent home directories > +~ > + > +The canonical non-existent home directory is ``/nonexistent``. Users > +who should not have a home directory should have their home directory > +set to this value. > + > +The D

Bug#610083: Remove requirement to document upstream source location in debian/copyright ?

2017-08-26 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 -patch On Sat, Aug 26 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > Seconded with or without the following nit. > > Minor wording nit: I would put a period after "obtained" and make the next > part a separate sentence. ("The copyright file should include a name or > contact address for the upstrea

Processed: Re: Bug#610083: Remove requirement to document upstream source location in debian/copyright ?

2017-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 -patch Bug #610083 [debian-policy] Remove requirement to document upstream source location in debian/copyright ? Removed tag(s) patch. -- 610083: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610083 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.o

Bug#610083: Remove requirement to document upstream source location in debian/copyright ?

2017-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > I am seeking seconds for the following patch. Given what Julian pointed > out, it only permits Homepage: to be used, not d/watch. > diff --git a/policy/ch-docs.rst b/policy/ch-docs.rst > index dc02bc6..d79f732 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-docs.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-docs.rst >

Bug#679751: Patch to close out this bug

2017-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > During DebConf, Russ and I reviewed this bug and believe that the only > remaining issue is to document /nonexistent. So I am seeking seconds > for the following patch. > diff --git a/policy/ch-opersys.rst b/policy/ch-opersys.rst > index e4ed008..7d9e20a 100644 > --- a/po

Bug#679751: Patch to close out this bug

2017-08-26 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 +patch Hello, During DebConf, Russ and I reviewed this bug and believe that the only remaining issue is to document /nonexistent. So I am seeking seconds for the following patch. diff --git a/policy/ch-opersys.rst b/policy/ch-opersys.rst index e4ed008..7d9e20a 100644 --- a/polic

Processed: Patch to close out this bug

2017-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 +patch Bug #679751 [debian-policy] please clarify package account and home directory location in policy Added tag(s) patch. -- 679751: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679751 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with pro

Bug#873346: Updating the developers-reference Uploaders list

2017-08-26 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Source: developers-reference Version: 3.4.18 Severity: minor User: m...@qa.debian.org Usertags: mia-teammaint Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt has not been working on the developers-reference package for quite some time. We are tracking their status in the MIA team and would like to ask you to remove them

Processed: Re: Bug#610083: Remove requirement to document upstream source location in debian/copyright ?

2017-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 +patch Bug #610083 [debian-policy] Remove requirement to document upstream source location in debian/copyright ? Added tag(s) patch. -- 610083: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610083 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org

Bug#610083: Remove requirement to document upstream source location in debian/copyright ?

2017-08-26 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 +patch On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:39:15AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > The difference between both sources of information is that Homepage is > parseable, and debian/copyright is not. DEP-5 will not solve this > problem: the Source field is more or less free-form. It may contain

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

2017-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > index 61f2b23..2bc7a07 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > @@ -1009,12 +1009,12 @@ reference whose name matches ``refs/dgit/*``. See the > manual page of >

Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2017-08-26 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 +patch Hello, On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 05:30:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > The attached patch is a third attempt, which underlines that the Built-Using > field is particularly useful when a given package, contributing contents > included in another package, can not be replace

Processed: Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2017-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 +patch Bug #688251 [debian-policy] Built-Using description too aggressive Added tag(s) patch. -- 688251: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688251 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems

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

2017-08-26 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 +patch Hello Ondřej, On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 03:07:24PM +0200, Ondřej Nový wrote: > 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/c

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

2017-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 +patch Bug #870915 [debian-policy] debian-policy: [5.6.30] Testsuite: There are much more defined values Added tag(s) patch. -- 870915: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870915 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with pr

Re: debian/upstream/signing-key.asc in policy 4.1.0

2017-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 09:27:25AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Osamu Aoki writes: > > The updated uscan will support debian/upstream/signing-key.asc only and > > internally convert it /signing-key.gpg. I will make uscan to > > convert other formats to this policy compliant *.asc. Also make

Re: Debian Policy 4.1.0.0 released

2017-08-26 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2017-08-22 09:42, Russ Allbery wrote: > Aurelien Jarno writes: > > On 2017-08-21 14:35, Sean Whitton wrote: > > >> 9.1.1 > >> Only the dynamic linker may install files to /lib64/. > > > How is that supposed to work for the multilib glibc? For example > > libc6-amd64:i386 installs all its