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Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way

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On Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:14:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > What I'm wondering is:
> > - depending on debian-policy would be another dependency, and the
> >   debian-policy only installs files to /usr/share/doc which is not
> >    guaranteed to exist; and there's also no easily parsable file there;
> If it would be helpful for debian-policy to ship this information directly
> in the package, that should be relatively easy to do.  Feel free to open a
> bug against debian-policy.  I'm not sure if Sean would see any problems
> that I'm not seeing, but I personally have no objection to Policy starting
> to install some machine-readable information about Policy in files in
> /usr/share/debian-policy in a documented format.

I think having the data provided by debian-policy (in the package,
and maybe-for other purposes-also on the website) would be an
excellent idea, thanks for the offer.
 
I'm waiting for Dominique's thoughts before cloning/etc. this bug.


Cheers,
gregor

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Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2020-08-06 14:30 +0200
  Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2020-08-06 15:50 +0200
    Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2020-08-06 16:20 +0200
      Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2020-08-06 17:20 +0200
        Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2020-08-06 18:20 +0200
    Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2020-08-06 16:40 +0200
      Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2020-08-06 17:00 +0200
        Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2020-08-06 17:20 +0200
          Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2020-08-07 03:00 +0200
            Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2020-08-08 02:30 +0200
              Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2020-08-08 23:50 +0200
                Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2020-08-09 20:40 +0200
                Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2020-08-10 00:40 +0200

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