Bug#676784: Policy §10.5 and .jar file noticeable exception

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On 03-08-13 08:40, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 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>

This should be "gunzip", not just "unzip". The latter unpacks the ".zip"
format, not the ".gz" one, which is significantly different.

> +         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,
> 


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