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Please direct replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What follows is a list of the normative Policy bugs that are under discussion or otherwise being tracked by the Policy maintainers. Currently, I maintain this list manually. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you see any errors or have any questions. I am currently roughly following the new proposed Policy procedure put forward recently by Manoj, which means that wording proposals aren't accepted until they've been reviewed and seconded by at least three people even if completely uncontroversial. (I'm counting the person proposing the change as one of those people for right now.) Proposals needing additional review and seconds are noted below. An experimental view of open Policy bugs divided into type of bug and discussion stage is available at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=debian-policy&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&ordering=policy&pend-exc=done This may become the default view after further refinement. Note that far from all of the bugs currently open are listed below; below are only those that I'm actively tracking. If other Policy delegates are actively tracking issues and will see them through to a resolution, please tell me which ones and I'll add them to this list. Blockers for Next Policy Release ================================ 402975: require internationalization of debconf templates Since this is now a release goal, Policy should reflect it. Given that it's a release goal, must may be more appropriate than should again. Need to decide must vs. should and then get review and seconds. 420701: GFDL is now in common-licenses Wording proposed but needs additional work to clean up the language. Then needs further review and seconds before it can be marked accepted. 431109: Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks Required change due to the GPLv3 release, since Policy currently requires GPLv3 packages to point to a version in common-licenses but base-files doesn't include the GPLv3. There is some disagreement over whether the generic GPL, LGPL, and GFDL symlinks should be deprecated entirely or still used for packages that give the licensee a choice of license versions. A specific wording proposal should probably be developed in conjunction with or after the resolution of 420701. There have been several wording proposals, none of which have reached consensus. Major Issues ============ 206684: require debconf for all prompting There seems to be a general consensus that this is a good idea, with a fallback clause for essential packages and their pre-dependencies, but not many people have weighed in on the discussion. Needs a specific wording proposal, review, and seconds. 209008: common interface for parallel building in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS General consensus on Policy wording and a partial wording proposal (which needs to note that in the absence of this option, packages should not be built in parallel). A complete wording proposal is difficult until 430649 is resolved. 430649: please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS Blocks 209008. Policy is currently silent on the question of delimiters for keywords in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS and the parsing method suggested in Policy some find counterintuitive. It also doesn't deal well with the proposed parallel=n syntax. Discussion seems to be converging on requiring space as a delimiter even though it makes setting the variable from the command line slightly more annoying, since make is very good at parsing space-delimited strings. No specific wording proposal yet. Minor Issues ============ 412634: 5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative list? Wording proposed that adds a normative list of urgency values to Policy and reconciles the two lists currently present. No discussion to date. Needs review and seconds to be accepted. 431813: support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory Wording proposed, needs review and seconds to be accepted. No discussion to date. 431814: source field of .changes files may contain a version number Change brings Policy in line with dpkg and dak. Wording proposed, needs review and seconds to be accepted. No discussion after the wording proposal. 434651: new virtual package wims-extra Question raised about the expected use of the virtual package, and about whether it falls into the cooperating package exception. Waiting on additional information from the bug reporter. Accepted Changes ================ 294962: add local and test -a/-o to expected /bin/sh features 361418: new Debian menu structure 382612: document ~ behavior in version numbers 413575: new virtual package dictd-dictionary -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
