Russ Allbery writes:
> Now that the terminology is in, the patch to address the normative issue
> in this bug is short and simple. Objections or seconds?
This has been merged for the next release.
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index c0415c1..9aca16c 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> ++
* Russ Allbery , 2010-07-19, 09:49:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index c0415c1..9aca16c 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8014,6 +8014,12 @@ endscript
+
+ Control information files should be owned by root:root
+ and either mode 64
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:49:31 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index c0415c1..9aca16c 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -8014,6 +8014,12 @@ endscript
>
>
>
> +
> + Control information files should be owned by
Hi,
On 19/07/10 18:49, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Now that the terminology is in, the patch to address the normative issue
> in this bug is short and simple. Objections or seconds?
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index c0415c1..9aca16c 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@
Russ Allbery writes:
> One of the first steps to be able to address this bug is to talk about
> these files in a coherent way. This raises the unfortunate spectre of
> the repeated use of "control file" for both files in the control.tar.gz
> member of a *.deb archive and for files formatted like
Hi,
On 04/07/10 02:40, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Russ Allbery writes:
>
>> Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary
>> package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in
>> Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This
>> seems l
Guillem Jover writes:
> Here's a review from a non-native speaker.
Thank you!
> On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 17:40:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> +A .deb package contains two sets of files: a set of files
>> +to installed on the system when the package is installed, and a
> /files to insta
Hi!
Here's a review from a non-native speaker.
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 17:40:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index bad28af..3d5334d 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -804,6 +804,35 @@
> in the .deb file format.
>
>
> +
Russ Allbery writes:
> Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary
> package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in
> Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This
> seems like something that should be discussed in Policy.
O
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary
> package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in
> Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This
> seems like something
Charles Plessy writes:
> Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>> In addition, Lintian also warns if a control file is empty or if it's not
>> one of the known set of control files, which at present is:
>>
>> clilibs config control conffiles md5sums postinst preins
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary
package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in
Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This
seems like something that shou
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