Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them
Hi,
>>"Charles" == Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk> writes:
Charles> Nooo... Look at this page, in the paragraph about urgency:
Charles> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-manual/ch-sourcepkg.html#s-dpkgchangelog
Charles> Closes would be a keyword, like urgency, and can be handled
Charles> by the current keyword=value system, just like urgency. It
Charles> should be something like
Charles> foo (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low, closes=10002 11930 10109
Right you are. In his infinite wisdom, the designer (Ian?) has already
considered the possibility of multipe keyword value pairs. So now all
that has to be done is document the another keyword is useful, namely,
closes, and to implement the handling in dinstall, to send mail to
bugs.debian.org to close relevant bugs when the packages are
installed. Since no format change has occurred, nothing else should
need to be changed.
Is the policy maintainer listening ? ;-)
manoj
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3.2.3 debian/changelog
This file records the changes to the Debian-specific parts of the package[6].
It has a special format which allows the package building tools to discover which version of the package is being built and find out other
release-specific information.
That format is a series of entries like this:
package (version) distribution(s); urgency=urgency
* change details
more change details
* even more change details
-- maintainer name and email address date
package and version are the source package name and version number.
distribution(s) lists the distributions where this version should be
installed when it is uploaded - it is copied to the Distribution field
in the .changes file. See Distribution, subsection 4.2.14.
urgency is the value for the Urgency field in the .changes file for
the upload. See Urgency, subsection 4.2.15. It is not possible to
specify an urgency containing commas; commas are used to separate
keyword=value settings in the dpkg changelog format (though there is
currently only one useful keyword, urgency).
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