Re: Policy 3.0.0 and /usr/X11R6/man ?

1999-10-27 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Stephan A Suerken schrieb am Mittwoch, den 27. Oktober 1999: > I am a little bit confused if /usr/X11R6/man is still conforming to > policy 3.0.0. > > According to section 5.8, /usr/X11R6/bin seems to be the right place > to put programs "for the X Windows System". There is no word about > where

Re: /usr/lib

1999-10-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 04:53 + 1999-10-27, David Coe wrote: > >/usr/lib/portsentry is indeed the right place, as long as the scripts > >don't change other than at installation/upgrade time. > > Actually, since they are perl and therefore architecture independant, > /us

Is there a policy on `task-' packages?

1999-10-27 Thread Kurt D. Starsinic
Hi, I've searched all the docs I can find and trolled through the Debian website, but I haven't seen any mention of `task-' as a prefix for a package name. Does it have a specific meaning, and is there a policy? Peace, * Kurt Starsinic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Technical Specialist *

Policy 3.0.0 and /usr/X11R6/man ?

1999-10-27 Thread Stephan A Suerken
I am a little bit confused if /usr/X11R6/man is still conforming to policy 3.0.0. According to section 5.8, /usr/X11R6/bin seems to be the right place to put programs "for the X Windows System". There is no word about where to place the according man pages in this section. Section 6.1 says: "You

Re: /usr/lib

1999-10-27 Thread Joel Klecker
At 04:53 + 1999-10-27, David Coe wrote: /usr/lib/portsentry is indeed the right place, as long as the scripts don't change other than at installation/upgrade time. Actually, since they are perl and therefore architecture independant, /usr/share/portsentry is better. -- Joel Klecker (aka E

Re: /usr/lib

1999-10-27 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 04:53:04AM +, David Coe wrote: > /usr/lib/portsentry is indeed the right place, as long as the scripts > don't change other than at installation/upgrade time. Then I'll put them in there, thanks. > > Sorry for my confusion. Sorry for causing confusion...my posting was r

Re: /usr/lib

1999-10-27 Thread David Coe
David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't want to put them in /usr/sbin (where portsentry resides). What's a > > good place to put them in? I thought about /usr/lib/portsentry/ - is this > > FHS > > compliant? > > No. Variable data can't g

Re: arch-specific binary-only rebuild

1999-10-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 05:29:27PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Oh. Come on. I think Peter is allowed to do a binary-only NMU of his > own package, like everybody else :-) > > This numbering scheme and its purpose is documented in the Developer's > Reference. Being the rationale the same (i.e. to