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Clarify and re-word some passages.
Ben Finney (6):
Separate some longer passages into paragraphs.
Link terms to their definitions
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On 03-Aug-2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 01-Aug-2017, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > 1) the patch needs to be rebased against current policy
>
> I'll take care of that in a few days.
I have updated my changes by rebasing onto current ‘master’ (commit
hash ‘06f7d27ac0e6aea9’). The
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remember, I found the wiki page and dpkg manual pages
sufficient when I was adding support for build profiles in src:linux.
However, I can see it has changed since I last looked and now says that
"stage1" has been deprecated. I don't understand why this is or how
we're supposed
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> We intend to use the ‘adventure’ virtual package name, to declare
> providing an implementation of the classic game Adventure.
An announcement of this at ‘debian-devel’ on 2016-04-20 with Message-Id
<85zispp4gn@benfinney.id.au> attracted no
investigation of existing
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>
> On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 14:52:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > What is the rationale for explicitly disallowing line-end comments
> > in any but that one file?
>
> This just predates other files in source packages using deb822 syntax.
>
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other files with that syntax, I suggest the attached
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Changes in upstream/master
Modified copyright-format/copyright-format-1.0.xml
diff --git a/copyright-format/copyright-format-1.0.xml b/copyright-format/copyright-format-1.0.xml
index 217e8dd..1cbe
um this section should be updated to (a)
explicitly reserve the range from 65536 to 4294967294 inclusive for
end-users, (b) reserve 4294967295 as the 32-bit (uid_t)(-1), and (c) note
that 65535 is still reserved for compatibility with systems with 16-bit
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Russ Allbery writes:
> Jonathan Nieder writes:
>
>> How about this?
>
>> diff --git i/policy.sgml w/policy.sgml
>> index 7d514921..58bde0bb 100644
>> --- i/policy.sgml
>> +++ w/policy.sgml
>> @@ -3766,8 +3766,9 @@ Checksums-Sha256:
>>
>>The field name identifies the
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Since we don't seem to have a specific directory for server
certificates, I suppose it should be under /etc/dovecot.
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> > A broader question: why single out any license in the policy
> > document? I think the point could be made just as well with “(for
> > example, if they have specific reasons to avoid particular
> > licenses)”.
>
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ink the point could be made just as well with “(for example, if they
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that would be a special case only, and does not make either one
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> of which the benefits are widely recognised.
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> erroneous Priority value is a Policy-violating bug in the package
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> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 14:28 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I couldn't find a way to tell Git “these files are removed from the
> > repository, propagate that fact to other repositories”. (Git doesn't
> > seem to track file removal as such
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+ [ Ben Finney ]
+
+ * Merge information from ‘mime-policy’ document into main ‘policy’
+document. (Closes: Bug#89038)
+
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debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
=== modi
On 25-Aug-2010, Ben Finney wrote:
> However, the VCS repository also contains the rendered documents
> themselves. Those should not be tracked in VCS; instead, they should
> be generated from source as needed.
I couldn't find a way to tell Git “these files are removed from
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.1.0
Severity: minor
The VCS repository for ‘debian-policy’ contains a source document
‘README.org’ along with rules to render that to the destination
documents.
However, the VCS repository also contains the rendered documents
themselves. Those should not be tra
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> Le Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 01:11:27PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
> > Every package must have a maintainer. The maintainer must be a
> > member of the Debian project.
Thank you for pointing out the flaws in this formulation.
>
> I think tha
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> I would prefer to see that jargon neologism removed everywhere, and
> replaced with the more direct “packaged for Debian”.
Here is my attempt at a patch to replace the jargon term with terms in
common usage.
=== modified file 'policy.sgml'
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> Inclusion of this command should not pose any problems as it has been
> supported since 1993 (debconf version 1.3.22).
I think you mean 2003.
Otherwise looks fine to me. Seconded.
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> > > ---
> > > If no homepage exists, e.g. because the software is abandoned and
> > > vanished off the net, "None" can be specified.
> > > ---
> >
> > Is this not indicated by
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> > There is an additional factor here. Reportedly, the ftpmasters have
> > a policy that all Debian packages must have all copyright notices
> > for the package duplic
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> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/01/msg00443.html>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/01/msg00443.html>
The first link should have been
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00963.html>.
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> > We don't want to have round after round of second-guessing what
> > ftpmaster's position is.
>
> You appear to be continuing to operate under the misapprehension that
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> > I think it would be a good idea to _add_ to policy a rule that
> > says that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules" must behave
> > identically, to prevent confusion, and to promo
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> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:24:05AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Policy §12.5, “Copyright information”, appears to be the complete
> > set of direct normative statements of what's required:
>
> >
Russ Allbery writes:
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> > Both of these seem to imply that copyright notices need to be in
> > ‘debian/copyright’, but §12.5 doesn't say that at all. Am I right
> > that these assertions in §3.4 and §3.9.1 are false and should be
> > removed
Ben Finney writes:
> Howdy all,
>
> In light of recent discussion [0] about ‘debian/copyright’ and what a
> Debian package should include in that file
Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for pointing out the unresolved reference
here. The discussions I'm referring to are:
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> > The proximal motivation for this is the Lintian check that results
> > in the ‘debian-control-has-unusual-field-spacing’ tag.
>
> Are you perhaps using a version of Lintian prior to 2.2.12 and
> therefore running into
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> > Is this a more general pattern that could be described in one place,
> > and referenced from multiple parts of the policy? I would like to
> > see some of the ‘debian/control’ fields, such as the dependency
> > fields, per
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