Bug#48045: marked as done (debian-policy: non-US is a misnomer)
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non-US is not a good name for the non-US (ahem) part of the archive. It's not
only non-US, it's also (for example) non-France. And when/if the US stops with
the silly crypto export laws, the name will be even more obviously fake.
I thought about naming it 'crypto', but it would also not describe it correctly
(since we also have packages encumbered by other silly laws there, like
software patents). Any ideas?
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Hi folks,
Another sweep through the bugs on policy. I am not even
going to address all of them, so I'll start with the bug that are 3
years old and counting.
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* #32263: [PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin
Package: debian-policy; Reported by: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>;
3 years and 300 days old.
There has been recent progress on this. We are now merely waiting on
the basic infrastructure for this change to be implemented by the web
servers (we have to wait, since if we don't, then packages complying
with the new policy would suddenly have failing cgi-bin scripts)
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* #33251: document standard cross-compiler paths
Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Santiago Vila
<sanvila@unex.es>; 3 years and 280 days old.
There seems to have been some confusion about what the right place
should be, whether to document current practice, or to standardize a
logical one, and whether the FHS says something relevant.
I am planning on moving this to the rejected pile, since no
consensus seems to have dawned, and it is unclear to me what is the
right thing to do.
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* #35762: lintian could check for hardcoded --infodir in maintaner
scripts
Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Santiago Vila
<sanvila@unex.es>; 3 years and 224 days old.
Hmm. Apparently, we were waiting for an transition to the FHS, and
/usr/share/info/. On may machines, I see that /usr/info is a symbolic
link to share/info; so this transition is now complete.
However, I did not see any reference to the evils of the
--infodir option; and I have forgotten what the discussion on
debian-policy may have been. Can anyone step up and say what the
upside of accepting this proposal is supposed to be?
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* #39125: lintian: should maybe recognize /etc/init.d/*.sh ?
Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Yann Dirson
<dirson@debian.org>; 3 years and 164 days old.
No discussion on this at all. There is no rationale for _why_
something has to be done here, just a bald statement to the
effect. Since nothing is broken, I think it is upto the proponents to
make a case here.
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* #39830: [AMENDMENT 30/10/2002] get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
roland@spinnaker.de; 3 years and 151 days old.
Heh. Have people tested the new mandb? This is going to get included
into policy on next upload; the new and improved mandb ought to be in
unstable before then.
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* #47438: [PROPOSAL] update policy copyright
Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Lars
Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>; 3 years and 35 days old.
Well, since the list of contributors to this document is long, and
undocumented, whose names _do_ go on the copyright list?
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* #48045: debian-policy: non-US is a misnomer
Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
cesarb@web4u.com.br; 3 years and 27 days old.
This is not a policy issue. Policy calls that archive whatever
name the project has assigned to it; and if the project channges that
name, the policy document shall be amended. Personally, I think this
is silly.
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manoj
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