Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

2023-09-10 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Bill Allombert (2023-09-10 18:29:36) > On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 09:00:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > Quoting Hideki Yamane (2023-09-10 11:00:07) > > >> Hmm, how about providing license-common package and that depends on > > >> "license-common-list"

Bug#1020323: debian-policy: document DPKG_ROOT

2022-10-10 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Helmut Grohne (2022-10-05 20:08:19) > I think this text is already quite good. I am yet wondering about the scope > of support that we mention here. > > 1. You write that we want essential + build-essential. In practice, we >also want things such as apt or systemd. I am wondering

Bug#1020323: debian-policy: document DPKG_ROOT

2022-10-05 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Russ, thank you for your explanations, things are quite a bit clearer now. Quoting Russ Allbery (2022-09-20 05:47:45) > The point of putting this in Policy is to provide guidance to the > packagers, not to the bootstrappers. Presumably you already have other > documentation that you maintain

Bug#1020323: debian-policy: document DPKG_ROOT

2022-09-19 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Source: debian-policy Version: 4.6.1.1 Severity: wishlist User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: dpkg-root-support X-Debbugs-Cc: jo...@debian.org, debian-cr...@lists.debian.org Hi, in [1] Russ asked us to submit a policy bug about DPKG_ROOT so here it goes. :) [1] https://lists.debian.org/

Bug#999826: debian-policy: fix Build-Depends footnote

2021-11-20 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
s, josch>From dc186d400e47c9eed7dc94a2be4daa59b3fa2665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 22:50:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fixup B-D alternatives footnote (closes: #999826) --- policy/ch-relationships.rst | 19 ++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions

Bug#999826: debian-policy: fix Build-Depends footnoteo

2021-11-17 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Bill Allombert (2021-11-17 14:40:57) > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 01:31:33PM +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues > wrote: > > Quoting Bill Allombert (2021-11-17 13:06:09) > > > > 1. "they are not normally used by the Debian autobuilders" should &

Bug#999826: debian-policy: fix Build-Depends footnoteo

2021-11-17 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Bill Allombert (2021-11-17 13:06:09) > > 1. "they are not normally used by the Debian autobuilders" should instead > >be "they are never used by the Debian autobuilders" or it should state > >when they are used and when they are not > > If the base system on top of which the build-

Bug#999826: debian-policy: fix Build-Depends footnote

2021-11-17 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Source: debian-policy Version: 4.6.0.1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: jo...@debian.org Hi, currently, footnote [1] of ยง7 states: > While Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Depends-Arch permit > the use of alternative dependencies, these are not normally used by the > Debian autobuilder

Re: Debian Policy 4.6.0.0 released

2021-08-18 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Sean Whitton (2021-08-18 22:21:15) > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 11:10AM +02, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > >> 9.1.1 > >> No package is allowed to install files in ``/usr/lib64/``. Previously, > >> this prohibition only applied to packages for 64-bit architectures. > > > > This path is used

Bug#924401: #924401 base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2021-02-22 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, for everybody else who is reading this bug and was not reading debian-devel at the same time, here is the thread that Tim started there for more context: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.20.2102211635290.6...@einstein.home.woodall.me.uk Quoting Tim Woodall (2021-02-22 18:28:56) > On Mon