Bug#695508: udd: bugs.cgi - bugs filed against multiple packages is not associated with a source

2013-01-05 Thread Ivo De Decker
Hi Lucas, On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:05:38PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I could try to create a patch, but I don't know where to get the data to do > > the test, so I'll leave that to someone else. > If you could write a basic patch, I could try to test it myself. > > Alternatively, you co

Re: [DEP 12] Why chosing YAML.

2013-01-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 12:00:57AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Both YAML and JSON are considerably nicer formats than the RFC822-based > format of Debian control files: better-specified, more standardized, > clearer, less ambiguous, easier to understand, and *far* more widely > implemented in term

[DEP 12] Relation with DEP 11.

2013-01-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear DEP 11 drivers and everybody, in the course of the discussion about DEP 12, which is about storing upstream metadata on file per source package, formatted in YAML, it was asked the relationship between our projects and the possibilities of convergence. Personally, I am in favor of convergenc

Re: [DEP 12] Why chosing YAML.

2013-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > The "deb822" format, also known as "control data" or "paragraph" format, > is particularly useful for keeping in a single file a serie of groups of > fields, where the order of the groups is significant. This is the case > for the source package control file (debian/cont