Bug#676784: Policy §10.5 and .jar file noticeable exception
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- Cc: Eugene Zhukov <jevgeni.zh@gmail.com>, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>, Matthew Johnson <mjj29@debian.org>
- Subject: Bug#676784: Policy §10.5 and .jar file noticeable exception
- From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 15:40:08 +0900
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20130803064008.GC16686@falafel.plessy.net>
- Reply-to: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>, 676784@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <20130730131337.GA20726@falafel.plessy.net>
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tag 676784 pending
thanks
Le Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:13:37PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
>
> Unless there is objection, I will add the note in parenthesis as a
> non-normative change, and then mark the bug pending.
Hello everybody,
here is what I pushed.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fe4a858..bc23f5c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
* Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
Closes: #705403
+ * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 953d5d2..cb1093f 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8853,7 +8853,9 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
</p>
<p>
- A symbolic link pointing to a compressed file should always
+ A symbolic link pointing to a compressed file (in the sense
+ that it is meant to be uncompressed with <prgn>unzip</prgn>
+ or <prgn>zless</prgn> etc.) should always
have the same file extension as the referenced file. (For
example, if a file <file>foo.gz</file> is referenced by a
symbolic link, the filename of the link has to end with
Cheers,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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