Re: /usr/bin/editor policy implementation

1997-11-19 Thread James Troup
David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Baseae 20 > > ed 10 > > ed should definitely have a higher priority than ae. I disagree most strongly: a) There actually are people who like ae b) You could be forced to install ed ev

Re: /usr/bin/editor policy implementation

1997-11-19 Thread David Frey
On Fri, Nov 14 1997 23:02 EST Dale Scheetz writes: > == begin proposal [...] > Base ae 20 > ed 10 ed should definitely have a higher priority than ae. David

Re: Changelog files

1997-11-19 Thread James Troup
Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As you know well by now Juan: debstd compresses changelogs. So > please state the issue accurately. Umm, not always it doesn't. If you're going to ask people to be accurate, please do the same yourself. If the changelog is small it won't be compre

Re: Changelog files

1997-11-19 Thread Christoph Lameter
As you know well by now Juan: debstd compresses changelogs. So please state the issue accurately. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > A quick scan on Contents.gz showed that 552 packages come with : > uncompressed changelogs. :

Re: Changelog files

1997-11-19 Thread Juan Cespedes
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A quick scan on Contents.gz showed that 552 packages come with > uncompressed changelogs. So what? If they are against current policy, we should either fix them, or fix the Policy. And I think the current Policy is fine respecting to

Re: Changelog files

1997-11-19 Thread ioannis
A quick scan on Contents.gz showed that 552 packages come with uncompressed changelogs. Please respect my hardisk, we did not buy it together ;-) -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server.

Changelog files

1997-11-19 Thread Juan Cespedes
Can anyone tell me, please, if all the changelog files should be compressed? I think that's pretty clear in section 5.8 of the Debian Policy, but Christoph Lameter always closes the bugs against his packages for not doing so. -- Juan Cespedes

Re: x-game in /usr/X11R6 or in /usr/games?

1997-11-19 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Mark W. Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's worth checking what FSSTND/FHS have to say about /usr/games, if > anything. Remember that /usr/X11R6/bin *itself* is discriminating -- > /usr/bin would do -- but that's another historical artifact... /usr/games is listed, but there is no section

Re: x-game in /usr/X11R6 or in /usr/games?

1997-11-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 12:22:56PM -0500, Mark W. Eichin wrote: > > > I think that a seperate tree for games is a bit discrimating. > > Yep! :-) It's traditional, as well, mostly I suspect so that (for > example) overenthusiastic admins could have a cron job chmod off > access to /usr/games dur