Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> ]] Philip Hands
>
>> Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
>>
>> > This should be implemented in Debian Policy by declaring that a a
>> ^^^
>> You've this doubled 'a' on two occasions in this text.
>
> I'll fix that, thanks for spotting it.
>
>> Presumaly we would not want to see new packages adopting the use of
>> vendor-specific patch series prior to Buster.
>>
>> Do we need to make the "SHOULD NOT" conditional on the package already
>> having a vendor-specific patch series at the time of this resolution?
>
> I think that just adds needless complexity and assumes that
> maintainers will want to add bugs to their package. I really hope
> that's not the case, so I don't think it's worthwhile to add extra
> language for it.
Well, I was thinking that we could simply state the MUST NOT as the
general case straight away, but with a limited exception for packages
that already contain the bug now, where that exception expires with the
release of Buster.
Your approach seems to require a timely update to policy post-buster,
whereas if there's a conditional in policy there would be no urgency to
removing it, so it can be done at the convenience of the policy
maintainers.
On reflection this seems like we're straying into micro-management.
Should we really be determining the detail of how this is done in
policy?
How about this instead:
The Committee therefore resolves that:
1. Any use of dpkg's vendor-specific patch series feature is a bug for
packages in the Debian archive (including contrib and non-free),
however existing use of this feature in packages should not be
considered release critical until after the release of Buster.
Possibly also with something like this?:
Post-Buster this should be implemented in Debian Policy by
declaring that a package MUST NOT contain a non-default series
file.
The approach adopted to allow existing usage is left to the
discretion of the Policy Maintainers.
Cheers, Phil.
--
|)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd.
|-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/
|(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature