Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
I agree that it's better to just make this a syntax error rather than
trying to guess at what it might mean. So, seconded. With Colin and I,
that's enough to commit it, but since this has been stalled for about four
years, I wanted to raise it again on
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 08:32:55 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index c1ff4b4..0f1dbf9 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -4628,7 +4628,7 @@ Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.1), exim | mail-transport-agent
Relationships may be restricted to a
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes:
Section 7.1 of the policy includes a description of
architecture-specific dependencies, correctly adding the following
constraint:
It is not permitted for some names to be prepended with exclamation
marks while others aren't.
the reason being
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:46:41PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Stefano Zacchiroli dijo [Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:46:05PM +0200]:
As per policy the empty architecture list has no defined semantics, I
guess that the only possible behaviours out there are the following:
1) require at least one
Stefano Zacchiroli dijo [Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:46:05PM +0200]:
(...)
As per policy the empty architecture list has no defined semantics, I
guess that the only possible behaviours out there are the following:
1) require at least one entry (as did by python-debian)
2) assume a default
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:27:51PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Section 7.1 of the policy includes a description of
architecture-specific dependencies, correctly adding the following
constraint:
It is not permitted for some names to be prepended with exclamation
marks while others
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:31:02AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
Seconded in principle (modulo the tab damage in your patch), although
Ooops, sorry, I didn't notice it.
I'm interested in the following points:
* What packages violate this constraint right now?
A quick test is grep '\[\]'
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.0.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Section 7.1 of the policy includes a description of
architecture-specific dependencies, correctly adding the following
constraint:
It is not permitted for some names to be prepended with exclamation
marks while others
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