bpack_1.1.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

Antonio Valentino antonio.valentino at tiscali.it
Mon Jun 17 06:32:33 BST 2024


Dear Thorsten,

Il 16/06/24 23:39, Thorsten Alteholz ha scritto:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2024, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> 
>> On 6/14/24 8:00 PM, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>>> according to policy (5.2) the source package stanza should not have a 
>>> Description:
>>
>> Policy doesn't specify that Source stanza cannot have a Description.
> 
> Policy does in 5.2: it defines a list of fields in the source package 
> stanza. Description: is not part of that list.
> 
>> dpkg supports this since 1.19.0 as documented in deb-substvars(5).
> 
> I don't read any man page or dig into all bugs before accepting a 
> package. I rely on the contents of the Debian Policy document. 
> Unfortunately today I had to learn that this is an unreliable source of 
> information.
> End of 2021 it was requested in #998165 that Description: should be 
> allowed. Sadly work on this bug was stalled and the change doesn't make 
> it into policy. So blame this REJECT on the idle policy editors.
> 
>    Thorsten

Thanks for digging into it and for reviewing/accepting the package.

kind regards
-- 
Antonio Valentino



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