Hello Charles,
On Thu 22 Sep 2022 at 02:26PM +09, Charles Plessy wrote:
> So point taken about "paragraph", although interestingly, the
> Simple English definition of "paragraph" is quite spot on if one would
> replace "sentence" with "field": ”one or more sentences that are written
> together
Hi Russ,
Le Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 06:08:16PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>
> I do find the use of paragraph the way we were previously using it to
> be confusing, particularly given that the paragraphs contain fields
> which in turn contain actual paragraphs in the normal sense of the
> term.
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes:
Russ> What do people think? Helpful innovation, or just extra
Russ> bookkeeping that isn't worth the effort? If people do think
Russ> this is a good idea, I'll bring it up on debian-devel for
Russ> further discussion (and then, if we adopted
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes:
Russ> Sam Hartman writes:
>> I think that hard links in a source package are fine provided
>> that breaking the hard links would not either break the build or
>> provide an unreasonable space multiplier.
Russ> I agree with you that
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 at 21:45:28 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I just found https://bugs.debian.org/838777, which says packages that only
> provide a window manager without a mechanism for launching programs should
> not register as x-window-manager
See also https://bugs.debian.org/1004522 in which
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 07:17:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> +The autobuilders for the Debian backports suite do not perform this
> +transformation and instead use the full alternatives list to resolve
> +dependencies.
this sounds like they install all build depends, incl alternative ones?!
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 06:39:11PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here is proposed wording that I think is ready for seconds.
>
> From: Russ Allbery
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:35:55 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Clarify udeb-only source packages are out of scope
>
> Note that source packages that
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 07:17:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst writes:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:05:42AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >> Wouter Verhelst writes:
>
> >>> -policy: this is a question that has come up before
> >>>
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