Bug#676784: Policy §10.5 and .jar file noticeable exception
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
Can it simply be "except if it is a .jar file" in parenthesis instead
of vague "in the sense that it is meant to be uncompressed with..."?
Regards,
Eugene
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