Hello Mattia, Russ,
Thank you both for your input on this.
On Mon 27 Dec 2021 at 09:51PM +01, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> In my mind I was mostly focusing on being able to provide a
> **description for the source package** (that is, then, relevant to
> everything that source package builds); said de
Simon McVittie writes:
> I believe the intention is to automate this pattern, which a lot of
> packages with shared libraries are already using:
> Source: dbus
> Package: dbus
> Description: simple interprocess messaging system (system message bus)
> D-Bus is a message bus, use
Nicholas D Steeves writes:
> The following is only Informational level, but the existence of
> Lintian's "duplicate-long-description" tag suggests that producing
> duplicate bin:Descriptions in bin:libfoo and bin:foo packages is not
> ideal, thus a straight copy from src:Description is not ideal.
On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 15:08:03 -0700, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> The following is only Informational level, but the existence of
> Lintian's "duplicate-long-description" tag suggests that producing
> duplicate bin:Descriptions in bin:libfoo and bin:foo packages is not
> ideal, thus a straight cop
Hi!
Reply follows inline,
Mattia Rizzolo writes:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 01:20:14PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> In that case, returning to Mattia's patch, it is probably not correct to
>> say that the source Description is relevant for all binary packages,
>> because perhaps the substvar is
Mattia Rizzolo writes:
> |+When used in a source control file in the general paragraph (i.e., the
> |+first one, for the source package), the text in this field is used to
> |+describe the source package itself, and consequently all of the binary
> |+packages built from itself.
What if we just l
On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 01:20:14PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> In that case, returning to Mattia's patch, it is probably not correct to
> say that the source Description is relevant for all binary packages,
> because perhaps the substvar is used for some but not all of them?
Mh, we probably we'll
Hello Guillem, Mattia,
On Fri 24 Dec 2021 at 01:42PM +01, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 17:53:31 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>>
>> Is there really no name for the first paragraph other than "general
>> paragraph"?
>
> That's how the dpkg documentation (man and perl modules POD) refe
On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 17:53:31 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 06:47PM +01, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>
> > |--- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> > |+++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> > |@@ -652,9 +654,14 @@ orderings. [#]_
> > | ~~~
> > |
> > | In a source or binary co
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 05:53:31PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > |--- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> > |+++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> > |@@ -652,9 +654,14 @@ orderings. [#]_
> > | ~~~
> > |
> > | In a source or binary control file, the ``Description`` field contains a
> > |-des
Hello Mattia,
Thanks for the patch.
On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 06:47PM +01, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> |--- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> |+++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> |@@ -652,9 +654,14 @@ orderings. [#]_
> | ~~~
> |
> | In a source or binary control file, the ``Description`` fiel
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 10:51:43PM +, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > |--- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> > |+++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> > |@@ -652,9 +654,14 @@ orderings. [#]_
> > | ~~~
> > |
> > | In a source or binary control file, the ``Description`` field contains a
> > |-d
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 06:47:21PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:18:35AM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > If I get no pushbacks I'll also propose some text later on when I'm
> > freer (unless somebody beats me to it!).
>
> I'm hereby seeking seconds (or, well, suggestio
On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:18:35AM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> If I get no pushbacks I'll also propose some text later on when I'm
> freer (unless somebody beats me to it!).
I'm hereby seeking seconds (or, well, suggestions for improvements) for
the following diff, which is based on
daa7d69fbff
On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Could you clarify what source packages that produce several binary
> packages should do ? Maybe give an example ?
Sure.
Here is how I would use it, for example.
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ Rules-Re
On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:18:35AM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version 4.6.0.0
>
> Hi!
>
> dpkg 1.19.0 introduced, following the request in #555743, a bunch of new
> substvars. Notably, it now handles ${source:Synopsis} and
> ${source:Extended-Description} that are de
On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 05:32:19PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > The main "bad" consequence would be that Description would be exported
> > in the .dsc and as such end up in the Sources index. This is probably
> > what we want anyway, but with all the people complaining about how big
> > the inde
Hello,
On Sun 31 Oct 2021 at 11:18AM +01, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version 4.6.0.0
>
> Hi!
>
> dpkg 1.19.0 introduced, following the request in #555743, a bunch of new
> substvars. Notably, it now handles ${source:Synopsis} and
> ${source:Extended-Description} that are de
Package: debian-policy
Version 4.6.0.0
Hi!
dpkg 1.19.0 introduced, following the request in #555743, a bunch of new
substvars. Notably, it now handles ${source:Synopsis} and
${source:Extended-Description} that are described as follow:
source:Synopsis
The source package synopsi
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