Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2022-01-27 Thread David Steele
On 1/27/22 5:11 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: Hello David, ... Reviewing this bug, it is still not clear to me that a virtual package is wanted as opposed to just making /usr/bin/todo a path managed by the alternatives system. I'm closing the bug, but if development that has taken place in the

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2021-01-10 Thread David Steele
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 11:53 AM Novy, Ondrej wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 14:20:57 +0100 Bill Allombert > wrote: > > What Sean meant is that, at this stage, this proposal needs to be > > seconded by people impacted by this virtual package before being > > accepted. > > as maintainer of

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-31 Thread David Steele
control: tag -1 - moreinfo On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:32 AM David Steele wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:29 PM David Steele wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:42 PM Sean Whitton >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Could you provide an actual pat

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-21 Thread David Steele
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:29 PM David Steele wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:42 PM Sean Whitton > wrote: > >> >> Could you provide an actual patch against policy.git, please, for >> seconding? See README.md in policy.git for more info. >> >

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-16 Thread David Steele
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:34 PM David Steele wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:14 PM Sean Whitton > wrote: > >> >> Okay, and you expect every implementation of todo.txt to have >> tdtcleanup? I think we probably want to specify that as one of th

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-16 Thread David Steele
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:14 PM Sean Whitton wrote: > > Okay, and you expect every implementation of todo.txt to have > tdtcleanup? I think we probably want to specify that as one of the (or > the only?) requirements of the virtual package. > No, no. The gtd stuff is an optional add-on to

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-16 Thread David Steele
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:29 PM David Steele wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:48 PM Sean Whitton > wrote: > >> >> >> Putting aside the use of the alternatives system, why is a virtual >> package wanted? When would it be useful to be able to declare a

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-14 Thread David Steele
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:48 PM Sean Whitton wrote: > > > Putting aside the use of the alternatives system, why is a virtual > package wanted? When would it be useful to be able to declare a > dependency and have it satisfied by one of these implementations? > > As an example, a future rev of

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-14 Thread David Steele
control: tag -1 + patch On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:42 PM Sean Whitton wrote: > > Could you provide an actual patch against policy.git, please, for > seconding? See README.md in policy.git for more info. > > -- > Sean Whitton > https://salsa.debian.org/steele/policy/-/tree/bug976402-steele

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-09 Thread David Steele
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 2:44 PM David Steele wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:21 AM Ansgar wrote: > >> >> >> Should emacs provide a "todo" script to open ~/TODO (with say org-mode)? >> > In regards to org mode. I'd add a third criteria -

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-09 Thread David Steele
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:21 AM Ansgar wrote: > > Given topydo just provides/conflicts with devtodo to provide the "todo" > binary, this seems to violate Policy 10.1 "Binaries" unless they provide > the same functionality. > Note that there is a Conflicts because the current devtodo does not

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-04 Thread David Steele
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 6:39 PM Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 06:23:44PM -0500, David Steele wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 6:21 PM David Steele wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:54 PM Bill Allombert > wrote: > > >

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-04 Thread David Steele
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 6:21 PM David Steele wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:54 PM Bill Allombert wrote: > >> >> Are people using /usr/bin/todo in script or Makefile ? >> Are they likely to still work with the alternatives ? >> > > I'd say no

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-04 Thread David Steele
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:54 PM Bill Allombert wrote: > > Are people using /usr/bin/todo in script or Makefile ? > Are they likely to still work with the alternatives ? > I'd say no. It is an interactive end-user command. This gives flexibility in what they are interacting with.

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-04 Thread David Steele
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 4:42 PM Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 01:34:44PM -0500, David Steele wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:15 PM Bill Allombert > wrote: > > > > > Do you envision to have packages depending on todo and the

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-04 Thread David Steele
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:15 PM Bill Allombert wrote: > What about devtodo ? > > Reading your summary, it seems that the todo.txt virtual package > is well specified, but the todo one is not. > > Do you envision to have packages depending on todo and then use the > todo binary ? > No. This is a

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-04 Thread David Steele
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 12:30 PM Bill Allombert wrote: > > Does all theses tools provide an compatible interface ? > In other word, are there interoperable ? > Yes, topydo and todotxt-cli support common commands, which make them interoperable for most uses. However, the command sets are not

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-04 Thread David Steele
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, charlesmel...@outlook.com, on...@debian.org thanks I'd like to propose adding the virtual packages "todo" and "todo.txt" to the authoritative list of virtual package names. I'm submitting this

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-10-06 Thread David Steele
On Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 8:17 PM Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat 05 Oct 2019 at 07:30PM -04, David Steele wrote: > > > I'm going to drop my objection, and assume that this is saying I don't > need to > > write init scripts for my special case. > > Oka

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-10-05 Thread David Steele
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 1:06 PM Sean Whitton wrote: > > Hello David, > > On Sun 29 Sep 2019 at 10:35AM -04, David Steele wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 1:05 PM Sean Whitton > > wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> On Sat 28 Sep 20

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-09-29 Thread David Steele
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 1:05 PM Sean Whitton wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sat 28 Sep 2019 at 04:18PM +00, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > Reasonable. Then let's drop part about Depends: > > > > [ ... All packages with daemons must provide init.d scripts ...], > > unless software is only

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-09-25 Thread David Steele
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 2:00 PM Ansgar wrote: > > Well, the Policy Editors currently see no consensus; so to change it one > would need to convince them, involve the tech-ctte or a GR. > The Policy needs to either explicitly discourage the use of systemd-specific features, or recognize the

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-09-25 Thread David Steele
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:18 PM Ansgar wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 16:13 -0400, David Steele wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:10 PM Sean Whitton > > wrote: > > > The Policy Editors have decided that dropping the requirement to ship > > &

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-09-25 Thread David Steele
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 11:43 AM Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > [2019-09-22 16:13] David Steele > > Candidate language attached. It adds "Also excepted are packages which > > require a > > feature of an alternate init system which is not available in SysV-St

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-09-22 Thread David Steele
vailable in SysV-Style init systems.". Thoughts? -- AE0D BF5A 92A5 ADE4 9481 BA6F 8A31 71EF 3661 50CE From 5b99099d370b6304cadaedc99d5f8d8cd3063c71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Steele Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:53:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify exception to sysv init script requ

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-07-23 Thread David Steele
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:15 AM Sean Whitton wrote: > > I think that the wording for this change should reflect the above > (unless I've misunderstood David), such that the new wording cannot be > misinterpreted to mean that the sysvinit requirement does not apply to > any package using any

Bug#932704: Fwd: Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-07-22 Thread David Steele
Re-sending to the bug thread. -- Forwarded message - From: David Steele Date: Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 9:15 AM Subject: Re: Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required To: Sean Whitton On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 7:02 AM Sean Whitton

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-07-21 Thread David Steele
Source: debian-policy Version: 4.4.0.1 Severity: normal In section 9.11 (The Operating System/Alternate init systems), it is stated that "...any package integrating with other init systems must also be backwards-compatible with sysvinit by providing a SysV-style init script...". There is a single