Re: Deb Policy: between 2.3.0.1 and 2.4.0.0

1998-03-09 Thread James Troup
Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, what's the difference? http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-policy/archive/changelog> http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-policy/related-docs/upgrading.html> -- James

Deb Policy: between 2.3.0.1 and 2.4.0.0

1998-03-09 Thread Craig Small
G'day All, Someone asked me why dh_make was using Debian policy 2.3.0.1 and not the latest and greatest version. The reason is that I took the code from deb-make and modified it for debhelper. deb-make had policy 2.3.0.1 and I don't know the difference between the two versions. So, what's the d

Locales and Programs parsing other's output

1998-03-09 Thread Yann Dirson
It appears that some programs in our distribution (see logs for bug #17361 or #19166 for known examples) are trying to parse other's output, without ensuring a specific locale. Such a behaviour can cause obscure failures (eg. dpkg-parsechangelog in #17361), or even erroneous output (the 'isnative

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1998-03-09 Thread Dick Broadway
-- > From: Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Adam P. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-policy@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#19129: sendmail: support PPP links --- use /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > Date: Monday, March 09, 1998 9:12

Re: Bug#19135: fetchmail: fetchmail tries to fetchmail every time my demand dialed ppp connection goes up

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Behan" == Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Behan> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I think that nothing should start sending requests off machine >> behind my back on an upgrade. The Defailt should be OFF. If you >> like it, turn it on. The behaviour should be to be close to what it >>

Re: About sections contents

1998-03-09 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I feel is missing is official guidelines for was belongs to what > section. I would love to see this documented. For instance, the make-doc package (documentation for make, not a package for making documentation) is in section doc even though the m

Re: Bug#19135: fetchmail: fetchmail tries to fetchmail every time my demand dialed ppp connection goes up

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > I think that nothing should start sending requests off machine > behind my back on an upgrade. The Defailt should be OFF. If you like > it, turn it on. The behaviour should be to be close to what it was > before. Instead of shipping with it off, could it be

Re: Bug#19129: sendmail: support PPP links --- use /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

1998-03-09 Thread Philip Hands
Hi, I'd just like to make my position (as ppp maintainer) clear on this ip-up/down issue (I've been off skiing for a week, so have not been able to get involved before this). People seem to be drawing a couple of false conclusions from the fact that I changed the ip-up/down scripts to use run-

Re: Bug#19129: sendmail: support PPP links --- use /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

1998-03-09 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) wrote on 08.03.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >Just because I have bind does not mean I want things to be >> > uploaded, or if I have sendmail that I want

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Re: Please don't remove size info from pkgs.

1998-03-09 Thread Yann Dirson
Kai Henningsen writes: > Bad idea. You forget that du -S only has _directory_ names. Ah, yes, I did. I was convinced .du files had size info for every file. However, if we use .md5sums files, .list files will be useless. A more generic and standardized format would be better. -- Yann Dirson

Re: Please don't remove size info from pkgs.

1998-03-09 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: > > Let's embrace open standards and open-ended architectures as deeply as we > > can. > > Yep, I didn't think of that, but it's much nicer. But OTOH, using SGML or XML will probably take more disk-space than would be strictly necessary. Colon-separated data files are