Re: Debian Policy 4.6.0.0 released

2021-08-18 Thread Jochen Sprickerhof
* Sean Whitton [2021-08-18 13:21]: On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 11:10AM +02, Aurelien Jarno wrote: 9.1.1 No package is allowed to install files in ``/usr/lib64/``. Previously, this prohibition only applied to packages for 64-bit architectures. This path is used by the multilib 64-bit toolch

Re: Debian Policy 4.6.0.0 released

2021-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 11:10AM +02, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> This path is used by the multilib 64-bit toolchain on 32-bit >> architectures, for instance libc6-amd64:i386, or a few essential >> libraries like ncurses. >> >> What kind of fix do you expect on the packages? Is i

Re: Debian Policy 4.6.0.0 released

2021-08-18 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Sean Whitton (2021-08-18 22:21:15) > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 11:10AM +02, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > >> 9.1.1 > >> No package is allowed to install files in ``/usr/lib64/``. Previously, > >> this prohibition only applied to packages for 64-bit architectures. > > > > This path is used

Re: Debian Policy 4.6.0.0 released

2021-08-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 11:10AM +02, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> 9.1.1 >> No package is allowed to install files in ``/usr/lib64/``. Previously, >> this prohibition only applied to packages for 64-bit architectures. > > This path is used by the multilib 64-bit toolchain on 32-bit > arch

Re: Debian Policy 4.6.0.0 released

2021-08-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 10:57AM -04, Scott Talbert wrote: > The upgrading checklist on [1] is for version 4.5.2. I could be wrong, > but doesn't this usually match first parts of the policy version > (4.6.0.0)? > > [1] > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html#ver

Re: Debian Policy 4.6.0.0 released

2021-08-18 Thread Scott Talbert
On Tue, 17 Aug 2021, Sean Whitton wrote: Hello everyone, I just pushed version 4.6.0.0 of the Debian Policy Manual and related documents to sid. Below you will find the significant normative changes from the previously announced release of Policy (4.5.1). The formal upgrading checklist is sho

Re: Debian Policy 4.6.0.0 released

2021-08-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On 2021-08-17 20:35, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just pushed version 4.6.0.0 of the Debian Policy Manual and related > documents to sid. Below you will find the significant normative changes > from the previously announced release of Policy (4.5.1). [snip] > 9.1.1 > No