On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:05:43PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
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> * #35762: lintian could check for hardcoded --infodir in maintaner
> scripts
> Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Santiago Vila
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 4 years and 118 days old.
>
> Hmm. Apparently, we were waiting for an transition to the FHS, and
> /usr/share/info/. On may machines, I see that /usr/info is a symbolic
> link to share/info; so this transition is now complete.
>
> However, I did not see any reference to the evils of the
> --infodir option; and I have forgotten what the discussion on
> debian-policy may have been. Can anyone step up and say what the
> upside of accepting this proposal is supposed to be?
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I don't see the actual Policy proposal in the bug. Lintian could check for
--infodir, sure, but I don't see how it has anything to do with Policy.
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> * #62996: no way to detect webservers without CGI support
> Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Rev Simon
> Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 2 years and 205 days old.
>
> This is not a policy issue yet, this is a design and implementation
> issue. Please try to get the httpd package maintainers together and
> work out a solution; and then we can put the working solution into
> policy.
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This is similar to the cgi-lib thing... needs to get maintainers to
implement it. :|
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> * #65577: [Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is not
> a part of Debian distribution
> Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Taketoshi
> Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 2 years and 156 days old.
> Hmm. I don't know. Does it seem like we have consensus?
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I guess we do, but it makes most if not all packages in contrib and non-free
buggy if accepted. We should add it as "may", send mails or wishlist bugs
for all packages that don't comply, and later upgrade it to "should".
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> * #65764: changelog shouldn't be in the copyright file
> Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Josip Rodin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 2 years and 153 days old.
> Hmm. Sounds like we have a winner here. How about a diff, then, folks?
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> * #69864: debian-policy: Update section 6.7 for "examples packages"
> Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Adam C Powell
> IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 2 years and 84 days old.
> This too sounds reasonable to me, but there was no discussion at all.
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You're looking at archived bugs, these two are long done...
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> * #54985: debian-policy: handling of shared libraries
> Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Matthew
> Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 3 years and 203 days old.
>
> There does not seem to have been a consensus on this issue, or a
> technically superior position (in my eyes).
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It doesn't seem like it attracted enough interest to even get
implemented in a few packages...
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> * #65578: [PROPOSED] extra-Debian packages should have extra Priority
> Package: debian-policy; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Taketoshi
> Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 2 years and 156 days old.
> No discussion at all, and I think that it blurs the priority and
> sections a bit.
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It should be closed, nobody seems to be interested in it and I don't see why
it's necessary either. "optional" is fine.
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