Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Helmut On 12.10.2020 19:30, Helmut Grohne wrote: You appear to be talking about binary packages. This bug is about source packages. When you unpack a source package, you are creating a directory hiearchy rooted at the point where you start unpacking. There is not possibly any reasonable w

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 12.10.2020 16:22, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Now we are more strict on where we can split filesystems What do you mean? If I remember correctly, now we do not support / and /usr to be on a different filesystems, and I

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 13.09.2020 12:52, Helmut Grohne wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.0.3 Severity: wishlist Jakub stumbled into the "No hard links in source packages" requirement added around 1996 and couldn't make sense of it. Neither could Christoph nor myself. tar does support hard links just fine.

Re: Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

2009-06-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04 2009, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > >> I think we could forbid "echo -n" on maintainer and other scripts, but >> allow it on init.d scripts. Rationale: >> - portability is more important on other scripts, and it is also n

Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

2009-06-03 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Raphael Geissert wrote: > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 12:54:00 Bill Allombert wrote: > [...] >> It does not make sense to policy to discourage "echo -n". Policy >> could deprecate it in favor of something else, but I do not see >> any alternative mentioned in this bug report, and otherwise >> discourag

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

2009-04-16 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > - Ability to recognize and render the following logical entities, in >decreasing order of importance: >+ unordered lists >+ ordered lists really needed? >+ emphasis >+ strong emphasis >+ definition l

Re: Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-02-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:46:15AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >>> Given that m-t-a is mentioned explicitly in policy, and that "default-mta" >>> will be a virtual package, I think this should be recorded in policy as well >>> - though if a clear consensus emerges on

Bug#513955: debian-policy: do not require /etc/init.d/*.sh scripts to be sourced

2009-02-02 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: > Kel Modderman writes: > >> It is the opinion of myself and Petter Reinholdtsen, maintainers of the >> sysvinit package, that the last sentence of §9.3.1 of policy is no >> longer relevant and should be removed: >> >> """Also, if the script name ends in .sh, the script will b

Re: Relative and absolute symlinks

2008-08-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > (Further discussion should happen on [EMAIL PROTECTED], but please > CC me.) > > During Manoj's "policy" talk at DebConf8, Gerfried opened the subject > of the policy's stand on relative and absolute symlinks, which > currently is "absolute if going through top-level, r

Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2008-08-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > First, section 4.14 should list things that one does not need to > describe in debian/README.source. For example, the use of one of the > "standard" patch systems (quilt, dpatch, simple-patchsys) doesn't need > to be documented, since every NMUer should be able to work with

Bug#479080: debian-policy: Policy '3.8 Essential packages' does not explain when/why essential is neccessary

2008-06-05 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:25:14PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> Hi, >>> On Fri, 02 May 2008 17:45:30 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> said: > Policy section 3.8, about essential packages, doesn't explain when/why

New policy

2007-06-23 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello list! I followed Manoj talk at DebConf7, and I would like to help. I'm trying to find and write down some idea, but they inevitably give me some questions: 1- Is available already a starting document? 2- some guidelines about docbook? 3- what is the scope? It should be like actual doc