Re: Thinking about Delegating Decisions about Policy

Le vendredi, 6 septembre 2019, 11.32:06 h CEST Bill Allombert a écrit : > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 09:17:59AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Le mercredi, 4 septembre 2019, 23.53:06 h CEST Bill Allombert a écrit : > > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 11:04:57PM +0200, Wou

Re: Thinking about Delegating Decisions about Policy

Le mercredi, 4 septembre 2019, 23.53:06 h CEST Bill Allombert a écrit : > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 11:04:57PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > * Most decisions are not just technical decisions, in many/most cases > > > > > > the decisions have answers that are all correct, but it just

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

Le jeudi, 30 novembre 2017, 18.54:32 h CET Ian Jackson a écrit : > [1] The GR would require a 2:3 supermajority because the TC abandoned > my efforts to reform the bugs in its constitutional foundations, when > I left the TC. These don't need to be carried by the TC. It's "nice" if the TC kept in

Bug#732445: debian-policy should encourage verification of upstream cryptographic signaturse

Le lundi, 7 août 2017, 09.40:22 h EDT Russ Allbery a écrit : > Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > > debian-policy should encourage verification of upstream cryptographic > > signatures. Yes. > diff --git a/policy.xml b/policy.xml > index 6086901..c14d9b4 100644 > ---

Bug#839172: TC decision regarding #741573 menu policy not reflected yet

Le jeudi, 3 août 2017, 08.53:09 h CEST Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Le mardi, 1 août 2017, 11.01:10 h CEST Sean Whitton a écrit : > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 02:55:31PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > We also approved the decision that packages should not include both

Bug#850646: [copyright-format] Allow https version of Format URI

Le dimanche, 8 janvier 2017, 12.02:38 h CET Russ Allbery a écrit : > Here's an updated patch that also fixes the other examples. Seconded. -- Cheers, OdyX signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#841877: Don't recommend contacting base-passwd maintainer for dynamic UIDs

Le lundi, 24 octobre 2016, 07.23:30 h CET Colin Watson a écrit : > Control: tag -1 patch > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 08:00:23PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Policy section "Permissions and owners" probably shouldn't recommend > > contacting the base-passwd maintainer when selecting a username

Bug#806993: ftp-master-mirror is not on ries.d.o anymore

Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.16 Severity: important Tags: patch The devref currently points to ries.d.o for the ftp-master-mirror, that is currently on coccia. According to db.debian.org, the FTP-Masters have decided to allocate it an alias: mirror.ftp-master.debian.org. I've

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

Le mardi, 13 octobre 2015, 08.55:07 Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > But _forbidding_ maintainers who want to from shipping a second file, > if that somehow makes the experience of menu users better than what > the fdo menu would have given them? Sorry, but that seems petty and > silly. For context,

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

Le mardi, 13 octobre 2015, 07.52:55 Sam Hartman a écrit : > >> Le mardi, 13 octobre 2015, 08.55:07 Wouter Verhelst a écrit: > >> But _forbidding_ maintainers who want to from shipping a second > >> file, if that somehow makes the experience of menu users better > >> than what the fdo menu would

Re: Next update of the Policy ?

Le dimanche, 4 octobre 2015, 00.07:02 Bill Allombert a écrit : > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:55:38AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > For the avoidance of any doubt, I agree that committing the diff was > > premature, although I assume it wasn't done in bad faith. Sorry for &g

Re: Next update of the Policy ?

Charles & Steve, Le vendredi, 2 octobre 2015, 19.42:53 Steve Langasek a écrit : > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 11:23:02AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > to fully implement the TC's decision, I think that it would be best > > to upload the updated Policy. > > I see that you have committed Didier's

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

Le mardi, 22 septembre 2015, 13.47:31 Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:27:53AM -0400, Sam Hartman a écrit : > > Hi. I've been debating how to respond to the shall vs must thing. > > The short answer is that there are reasons why you might prefer > > shall, but I find that

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

Le mardi, 29 septembre 2015, 14.34:35 Guillem Jover a écrit : > Which contains the requirements for the XDG entry, one of those being > the icon. If the upstream part does not contain a suitable icon, then > removing the XDG entry and any relevant icon shipped in the debian/ > directory makes the

Bug#792853: debian-policy: please disallow colons in upstream_version

Le mardi, 29 septembre 2015, 21.09:02 Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:40:34PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > > Le samedi, 26 septembre 2015, 15.03:09 Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > Le Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit :

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

Hi Charles, I noticed you committed this typo of mine to the git repository, sorry for that: Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 15.25:54 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > + Applications that are registred in the desktop menu shall ---^ Cheers, O

Bug#792853: debian-policy: please disallow colons in upstream_version

Le samedi, 26 septembre 2015, 15.03:09 Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > > * Charles Plessy , 2015-09-24, 21:53: > > >-: ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon, > > >+: ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, > >

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

Le mardi, 29 septembre 2015, 02.10:01 Guillem Jover a écrit : > Wow, this is such terrible policy… So we have supporters of the XDG > format, and supporters of the menu format. Some of those would and > have accepted files of their non-preferred format in their packages, > some have outright

Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

Control: severity -1 important Hi all, As you have certainly seen on debian-devel-announce [0], the Technical Committee has ruled on the question of Debian Menu Systems, and the technical decision should now find a form within the Debian Policy. First, the commit designed in the aforementionned

Bug#796442: §5.5 Uploads to suites other than unstable/experimental should use codenames, not suites

Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.15 Severity: important Tags: patch As I understand the current Release Team practices (in X-Debbugs-CC), uploads to non-unstable/experimental suites should nowadays rather use the codenames (wheezy, wheezy-proposed-updates, wheezy-security or wheezy-lts)

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

Le lundi, 6 janvier 2014, 16.21:52 Ian Jackson a écrit : I think the constitutional position of the policy team is as follows: They are a package maintainer team. They normally make their decisions themselves under 3.1.1. I think that framing the policy team primarily into a package