Debian Bug report logs: Bugs tagged patch and in source package debian-policy

Maintainers for debian-policy are Debian Policy Editors <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>.

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Outstanding bugs -- Unclassified; Normal bugs; Wording proposed (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Unclassified; Minor bugs; Wording proposed (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Unclassified; Wishlist items; Wording proposed (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Normative; Normal bugs; Change proposed (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normative; Normal bugs; Wording proposed (3 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normative; Minor bugs; Change proposed (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Normative; Wishlist items; Wording proposed (6 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normative; Wishlist items; Discussion (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Informative; Normal bugs; Wording proposed (1 bug)
Pending Upload bugs -- Normative; Normal bugs; Wording proposed (1 bug)
Pending Upload bugs -- Normative; Minor bugs; Discussion (1 bug)

Outstanding bugs -- Unclassified; Normal bugs; Wording proposed (1 bug)

#1059730 [n|+| ] [src:debian-policy] debian-policy: switch to new Debian-conform html theme for Sphinx/reST
Reported by: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>; Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:15:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch;

Outstanding bugs -- Unclassified; Minor bugs; Wording proposed (2 bugs)

#1010229 [m|+| ] [src:debian-policy] cosmetic: version restrictions are limited to = for Provides but also Built-Using
Reported by: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:03:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Found in version debian-policy/4.6.1; Filed 1 year and 254 days ago; Modified 1 year and 254 days ago;
#1053305 [m|+| ] [debian-policy] Fw: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ examples suffer escape damage
Reported by: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>; Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 09:39:03 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Filed 96 days ago; Modified 96 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Unclassified; Wishlist items; Wording proposed (1 bug)

#1057057 [w|+| ] [debian-policy] debian-policy: Please make Checksums-Sha1 optional
Reported by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 22:27:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debian-policy/4.6.2.0; Filed 38 days ago; Modified 38 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normative; Normal bugs; Change proposed (2 bugs)

#582109 [n|+| ] [debian-policy] debian-policy: document triggers where appropriate
Reported by: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:54:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: normative, patch, proposal; Found in version debian-policy/3.8.4.0; Filed 13 years and 235 days ago; Modified 10 years and 85 days ago;
#904248 [n|+| ] [debian-policy] Add netbase to build-essential
Reported by: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 11:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: normative, patch, proposal, simple; Filed 7 years and 339 days ago; Modified 5 years and 74 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normative; Normal bugs; Wording proposed (3 bugs)

#845255 [n|+| ] [debian-policy] debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications
Reported by: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 20:21:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: complex, normative, patch; Filed 7 years and 46 days ago; Modified 6 years and 152 days ago;
#945269 [n|+| ] [debian-policy] debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var
Reported by: Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org>; Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 08:06:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: normative, patch; Filed 4 years and 45 days ago; Modified 108 days ago;
#968226 [n|+| ] [debian-policy] Move documentation of Build-Depends alternative selection out of footnote
Reported by: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 07:03:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: normative, patch; Filed 3 years and 147 days ago; Modified 117 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normative; Minor bugs; Change proposed (1 bug)

#685506 [m|+| ] [debian-policy] copyright-format: new Files-Excluded field
Reported by: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:39:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: normative, patch, proposal, simple; Filed 11 years and 139 days ago; Modified 1 year and 342 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normative; Wishlist items; Wording proposed (6 bugs)

#590511 [w|+| ] [debian-policy] Document significance of first-listed alternative in dependencies
Reported by: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: normative, patch; Found in version debian-policy/3.9.1.0; Filed 13 years and 166 days ago; Modified 117 days ago;
#682347 [w|+| ] [debian-policy] mark 'editor' virtual package name as obsolete
Reported by: Artem Leshchev <wolf@gwerewolf.ru>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:21:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: normative, patch; Filed 11 years and 170 days ago; Modified 2 years and 231 days ago;
#756835 [w|+| ] [debian-policy] Extension of the syntax of the Packages-List field.
Reported by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 10:42:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: normative, patch; Found in version debian-policy/3.9.5.0; Filed 9 years and 158 days ago; Modified 6 years and 331 days ago;
#793499 [w|+| ] [debian-policy] debian-policy: The Installed-Size algorithm is out-of-date
Reported by: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:09:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: normative, patch; Found in version 3.9.7.0; Filed 8 years and 167 days ago; Modified 115 days ago;
#1004522 [w|+| ] [debian-policy] debian-policy: Proposing new virtual package: wayland-session
Reported by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 20:15:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: normative, patch; Found in version debian-policy/4.6.0.1; Filed 1 year and 341 days ago; Modified 118 days ago;
#1006912 [w|+| ] [debian-policy] is it time to have account deletion in policy?
Reported by: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>; Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 06:45:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: normative, patch; Found in version debian-policy/4.6.0.1; Filed 1 year and 303 days ago; Modified 118 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normative; Wishlist items; Discussion (2 bugs)

#610083 [w|+| ] [debian-policy] Remove requirement to document upstream source location in debian/copyright ?
Reported by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:36:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: discussion, normative, patch; Found in version debian-policy/3.9.1.0; Filed 12 years and 358 days ago; Modified 6 years and 132 days ago;
#645696 [w|+|=] [debian-policy] [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification
Reported by: Ximin Luo <infinity0@gmx.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:39:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: discussion, normative, patch; Merged with 649530, 737796, 786470; Filed 12 years and 83 days ago; Modified 6 years and 148 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Informative; Normal bugs; Wording proposed (1 bug)

#1024367 [n|+| ] [debian-policy] In 4.9.1, the example uses not recommended install -s
Reported by: Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: informative, patch; Found in version debian-policy/4.6.1.1; Filed 1 year and 48 days ago; Modified 103 days ago;

Pending Upload bugs -- Normative; Normal bugs; Wording proposed (1 bug)

#1029211 [n|+P| ] [debian-policy] debian-policy: Add mention of the new non-free-firmware archive area
Reported by: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>; Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: 1029211, normative, patch, pending, tag; Found in version debian-policy/4.6.2.0; Filed 351 days ago; Modified 117 days ago;

Pending Upload bugs -- Normative; Minor bugs; Discussion (1 bug)

#1031403 [m|+P| ] [debian-policy] debian-policy: missing quotes in sh script example in file policy/ap-pkg-diversions
Reported by: Max-Julian Pogner <max-julian@pogner.at>; Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:57:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: discussion, normative, patch, pending; Found in version debian-policy/4.6.2.0; Filed 323 days ago; Modified 117 days ago;

Summary

Status
- 19 Outstanding
- 2 Pending Upload
Issue Type
- 4 Unclassified
- 16 Normative
- 1 Informative
Severity
- 8 Normal bugs
- 4 Minor bugs
- 9 Wishlist items
Issue Status
- 3 Change proposed
- 15 Wording proposed
- 3 Discussion

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