Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.1.5.0
Severity: wishlist
In the HTML version of Policy it would be nice to have links from the
section numbers in the upgrading checklist to the corresponding
sections in the Policy document. This would help developers read the
full sections as well as the
Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.1.5.0
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice to have secondary anchors for section numbers so that
I could just add #10.4 or #s10.1 (for example) to my browser URL to jump to the
right section when someone references a particular Policy section on IRC or
On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 20:16 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> LGTM. It might be worth saying "the apt repository (both source and
> binaries)". There are both packages which fetch .debs explicitly, and
> packages which fetch sources explicitly (yes, this is not very good,
> but consensus in a
Hello,
Am 29.12.2017 um 10:18 schrieb Sean Whitton:
> user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org
> usertags 883950 = normative discussion
> thanks
>
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Dec 28 2017, Markus Koschany wrote:
>
>> the Policy editors request your attention and a decision regarding
>> Debian bug
Paul Wise writes ("Bug#813471: Seeking seconds for patch to permit some network
access to localhost"):
> For clarity, how about we separate the two types of network access?
>
> In addition, d-i relies on access to the apt repo for the system.
> I can imagine other uses of that, so I added a
Sean Whitton:
> Here is a revised patch; David, hopefully you will renew your second.
>
>> diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst
>> index 9e7d79c..890c479 100644
>> --- a/policy/ch-source.rst
>> +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst
>> @@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ non-interactive. It also follows
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 05:19:14PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> control: tag -1 +patch
>
> Hello,
>
> Here is a patch, for which I am seeking seconds, that tries to capture
> the points raised by Osamu, Guillem and Paul without getting into
> legalese -- Bill has a point. In particular, I think
On 07/23/2018 04:45 AM, Sean Whitton wrote:
> control: tag -1 +patch
>
> Hello,
>
> Seeking seconds:
>
> diff --git a/policy/ch-relationships.rst b/policy/ch-relationships.rst
> index 1eaa422..03f5918 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-relationships.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-relationships.rst
> @@ -228,6
Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sun 22 Jul 2018 at 11:12PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> > That would mean Recommends is effectively Depends. Is it really what you
> > intend?
>
> I don't follow.
>
> My patch says that /some/ functionality might not work without the
> recommends.
>
It comes down
On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:35:48 +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > +If an upstream release notes file is available, containing a summary
> > +of changes between upstream releases intended for end users of the
> > +package and often called ``NEWS``, it should be accessible as
> >
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:11:11PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> There isn't even a guarantee that what gets synced to Ubuntu has ever
> been unpacked - or *can* be unpacked - with dpkg-source.
Indeed. Not only is there no guarantee, but it goes wrong in practice
too.
As an operator of
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 07:50:59AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello Bill,
>
> On Sun 22 Jul 2018 at 07:45PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> > I have to disagree with that recommendation. It all depends on how the
> > changelog is worded. Since we do not include a definition of changelog
> >
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:45:31AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> control: tag -1 +patch
>
> Hello,
>
> Seeking seconds:
Seconded.
>
> diff --git a/policy/ch-relationships.rst b/policy/ch-relationships.rst
> index 1eaa422..03f5918 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-relationships.rst
> +++
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 07:48:48AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst
> > index 9e7d79c..c35e994 100644
> > --- a/policy/ch-source.rst
> > +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst
> > @@ -277,6 +277,13 @@ reproduce the same binary package, all required
> >
Hello,
On Sun 22 Jul 2018 at 11:12PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> That would mean Recommends is effectively Depends. Is it really what you
> intend?
I don't follow.
My patch says that /some/ functionality might not work without the
recommends.
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Sean Whitton wrote:
Seeking seconds:
>
> diff --git a/policy/ch-relationships.rst b/policy/ch-relationships.rst
> index 1eaa422..03f5918 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-relationships.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-relationships.rst
> @@ -228,6 +228,10 @@ The meaning of the five dependency fields is as
> follows:
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