Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:53:31AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 04:51PM -05, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > > I suggest replacing the whole sentence with "The purpose of this field > > is exclusively for cases where a package's license, or when DFSG > > requirements, necessita

Processed: limit source to debian-policy, tagging 941198

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > limit source debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'source' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currently set to 'source':'debian-policy' > tags 941198 + pending Bug #941198 [debian-policy] initscripts: packages should ship syste

Bug#944325: please fix this unclear and obtuse phrasing in §7.8 (suggestion provided)

Hello, On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 04:51PM -05, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > The full sentence in question is "This field should not be added > solely for purposes other than satisfying license or DFSG requirements > to provide full source code". > > "solely for purposes other than satisfying" is the pr

Bug#944329: debian-policy: Unclear text about password files modifications

Hello, On Fri 08 Nov 2019 at 01:18AM +01, Guillem Jover wrote: > There's this text in section §9.2.1: > > ,--- > Packages other than "base-passwd" must not modify "/etc/passwd", > "/etc/shadow", "/etc/group" or "/etc/gshadow". > `--- > > It's not clear to me, whether this refers to the pa