Bug#850156: Please firmly deprecate vendor-specific series files

2018-04-19 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi, On Do 19 Apr 2018 06:29:42 CEST, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote: > This feature is a very bad idea. I can see why people thought it > might be nice: it means you can use the same (or very similar) .dsc > (and perhaps vcs hi

Bug#850156: Please firmly deprecate vendor-specific series files

2018-04-18 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi, On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 16:33:09 +0100 Andreas Henriksson wrote: > The vendor series files are mostly useless because most of the time you > want /additional/ vendor patches, but the vendor series files completely > replaces the original debian/patches/series which means you duplicate > the ma

Bug#850156: Please firmly deprecate vendor-specific series files

2018-04-18 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Ian, just got pointed by someone to this bug report. On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:41:53 + Ian Jackson wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev, debian-policy > Version: 1.17.27, 3.9.8.0 > > dpkg-source has a surprising and not-very-well-documented feature, > that it is possible to have in a `3.0 (quilt)' p

Bug#835451: debian-policy: Building as root should be discouraged

2017-08-03 Thread Mike Gabriel
for addressing this bug. On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 07:52:35PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: [...] Since the permission to have an empty build target has been in policy for a long time, imposing this requirement would make a lot of packages buggy. Changes to policy are not meant to do this. B

Bug#809637: debian/copyright checks fail on upstream filenames containing blanks

2017-08-03 Thread Mike Gabriel
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Bug#835451: debian-policy: Building as root should be discouraged

2017-08-02 Thread Mike Gabriel
y-a AND binary-b (optional) binary-a: <-->INSTALL FILES FROM build-a INTO BIN:PACKAGE(S) binary-b: <-->INSTALL FILES FROM build-b INTO BIN:PACKAGE(S) Right? Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby mobile: +49 (1520) 1976 148 landline: +49 (4354) 839

Re: Can debian/rules build target use precompiled object code in favor of building from source?

2014-10-20 Thread Mike Gabriel
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Bug#634607: Add Affero GPL license to /usr/share/common-licenses

2011-12-28 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Jonathan, On Mi 28 Dez 2011 16:03:58 CET Jonathan Yu wrote: Hi Mike, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Mike Gabriel < mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote: I would love Debian to support this by setting a little signal which could be adding the license to common-licenses. To b

Bug#634607: Add Affero GPL license to /usr/share/common-licenses

2011-12-28 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Jonathan, On Di 27 Dez 2011 18:19:34 CET Jonathan Yu wrote: Hi, On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Mike Gabriel < mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote: However, I would love Debian to give a signal on A-GPL as for many server-side projects (CMS, Groupware, etc.) A-GPL f

Bug#634607: Add Affero GPL license to /usr/share/common-licenses

2011-12-27 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Russ, thanks for taking a look at this. On So 25 Dez 2011 18:47:24 CET Russ Allbery wrote: Mike Gabriel writes: please add AGPL-n license files to /usr/share/common-licenses, so that people can refer to that from within their packages. More and more projects are changing over to AGPL