Re: tar files in example dirs

1997-10-05 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Christian Schwarz wrote: > > Fabrizio, could you show us any packages where you consider the > existance of a .tar.gz a bug? I don't consider this existence a bug. As I said, if I would, I'd raised bugs. I was just wandering to hear opinions about the possibility of having the policy say somethi

Re: Bug#13287: less uses /usr/bin/editor without it necessarily being there.

1997-10-05 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Christian Schwarz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >But this is no bug in less but in all the editor packages that install an >editor but do not provide /usr/bin/editor. At least the editors in the >base system (I think ae and tiny-vi) should provid

Re: tar files in example dirs

1997-10-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > And yes, I realise you were talking about real documentation in > > > /usr/doc/*/*.tar.gz. Now, that's something different, and maybe > > > the maintainers should think again about those tarfiles. But > > > on the bases of those "doc.tar.gz" files y

Re: Bug#13287: less uses /usr/bin/editor without it necessarily being there.

1997-10-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 2 Oct 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > -BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE- > Christian Schwarz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >This discussion is getting too complicated for me :-) I don't know if > >things are clear now, or not. So let me try to summarize. > > Sound

Re: #12501: zip and unzip are non-free

1997-10-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE- > [I'm moving this to debian-policy] > > On 1 Oct 1997, Guy Maor wrote: > > > Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > [About zip and unzip moved to non-free] > > > > > > They are still in b