Hi.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
at Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:06:59 -0800,
on Re: base dependency warning,
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since Adam tells us this is no longer true and the boot-floppies team
> decides what goes in the base system, and since we seem to have a consensus
> that the base section is then unnecessary, policy needs to be updated.
>
> Since other parts of policy refer to "the base system", we still need some
> definition of what that system is, or quite a few paragraphs (see end of
> this email) would need to be changed. Here is one way we could reword policy:
>
> | 2.3.6. The base system
> ----------------------
> |
> | The base system is a minimum subset of the Debian GNU/Linux system that is
> installed before everything else on a new system. Thus, only very few
> | packages are allowed to go into the base system to keep the
> | required disk usage very small.
>
> Most of these packages should have the priority value `required' or at
> least `important', and many of them will be tagged `essential' (see
> below).
>
> You must not place any packages into the `base' section before this has
> been discussed on the `debian-devel' mailing list and a consensus about
>
> doing that has been reached.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
at Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:04:09 -0800,
on Re: base dependency warning,
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joseph Carter wrote:
> > I don't think the last 3 lines need to remain in policy. Any issues with
> > removing them? Otherwise this sounds good to me.
>
> Removing them changes who is responsible for that. That's worth a seperate
> proposal, I think it might be too controversial to tack onto this one, which
> is just documenting existing practice.
>
> I don't see anything wrong with the boot-floppies folks asking on -devel
> before adding stuff to base.
In the urgent time such like now, I prefer "to announce on -devel also,
but to discuss on -boot". I don't see anything wrong with the maintainer
of the package which will go into "base system" and related people are
invited to join the -boot list and discuss about boot-floppies.
("base system" is merely a part of boot-floppies, isn't it ?)
I think the development of boot-floppies will and should go on -boot list.
--
Taketoshi Sano: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
