Bug: 37233 Title: FORMAL structure for DEBIAN-POLICY debate Posted: 07 May 1999 Proposer: Gordon Matzigkeit Seconders: Status: unknown Description: Lays out a set of legalistic guidlines to be used when discussing changes to policy. Spurred by recent flamefest on debian-policy. Notes: Manoj Srivastava formally objected to this proposal, and was seconded by Joey Hess and Oliver Elphick.
Bug: 37251 Title: software depending on non-US Posted: 06 May 1999 Proposer: Marco d'Itri Seconders: Gordon Matzigkeit, Joseph Carter Status: discussion Description: Proposal to allow software that depends on software in non-us into main (currently restricted to contrib). Bug: Title: configuration of packages Posted: 5 May 1999 Proposer: Brederlow Seconders: Status: discussion Description: Draft proposal to graft user-friendly and/or automatic install-time configuring of packages onto dpkg. Bug: 37257 Title: libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages Posted: 4 May 1999 Proposer: Ossama Othman Seconders: Marcus Brinkmann, Marcelo E. Magallon Status: discussion Description: .la files aren't useless, libtool can use them and they are essential to programs that use libltdl. Proposal is to include .la files in -dev packages if they are produced by the build process. Bug: Title: moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy Posted: 1 May 1999 Proposer: Chris Waters Seconders: Joey Hess, Karl M. Hegbloom Status: discussion Description: Identical to proposal #36051, with addition of top-level Help menu. Bug: Title: logrotation Posted: 28 Apr 1999 Proposer: Balazs Scheidler Seconders: Brock Rozen, Raphaël Hertzog, Brian Almeida, Marco d'Itri Status: consensus Description: Proposal to change to using logrotate instead of savelog. Bug: Title: Scripts PROPOSAL Posted: 22 Apr 1999 Proposer: Brock Rozen Seconders: Status: stalled Description: Proposal to require that scripts ensure the environment they run in is sensible, by sanitizing PATH and TZ. Notes: No consensus. IFS may need to be sanitized as well. Bug: 36051 Title: moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy Posted: 14 Apr 1999 Proposer: Joey Hess Seconders: Raphael Hertzog, Joseph Carter, Branden Robinson Status: stalled Description: Proposal to move existing menu hierarcy text into policy with only small changes, and postpone large changes until later. Items will remain on this list until stalled for 2 weeks or done. An item becomes stalled if there is no activity for 1 week. I'm only making my best guess about items the group is in consensus about, and I won't mark anything as status: consensus until people have had at least one week to comment on it. -- see shy jo
