GNUstep <-> FHS?

1998-09-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[ Replies to debian-policy only please ] Hi, I'm struggling with WindowMaker 0.19.0 and I just noticed a "minor" (yeah, right!) change in the way it parses configuration files at the source code level. It will search for resources like this: resourcePath/ext arv[0]/ext

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luis> Now, if you guarantee proposals will have that header I don't Luis> have a problem. Well, I think that was part of the guidelines. We shall try and strive to ensure it is adhered to .

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Let me get this straignt. You can't be bothered to read your > own mail, you cant be bothered to check a web page, you cant be > bothered to filter the -devel list looking for the ^Subject: .*PROPOSAL: > header into a new list, you can't be bothered to setup some

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Given the use of the BTS, any such list is redundant. Luis> Yeah right. I just said that reading all the messages that get into my Luis> mailbox is too much and the solution is to force me to regularly check a Luis> web pag

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > > So why don't you bookmark the bug page on policy? Any proposal > > shall show up as a wishlist bug, and formal amendments shall show up > > as regular bugs. The bug reports shall be retitles to show the > > current status. > > > >

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
> So why don't you bookmark the bug page on policy? Any proposal > shall show up as a wishlist bug, and formal amendments shall show up > as regular bugs. The bug reports shall be retitles to show the > current status. > > Given the use of the BTS, any such list is redundant. Yeah r

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luis> With the amount of traffic in almost all debian lists, I can Luis> hardly keep up with all of it. I do want to know the issues Luis> discussed but get burried in lots of email. Now having that Luis> list would allow me t

Re: Proposal Announce Processes

1998-09-02 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
> Personally, I don't think that this is necessary, since I feel that > developers who care about policy should read the group, and those who > don't should be content to 'toe the line'. However, if someone else were > to propose a scheme like that above, I wouldn't vote against it. With the amoun

/etc/adjtime, /etc/timezone, etc.

1998-09-02 Thread Santiago Vila
[ Please don't Cc:me, I will read your input in the list ] Hi. In bug #23255, Nicolás Lichtmaier reports that /etc/adjtime should probably not be a "conffile" (i.e. a configuration file managed by dpkg through the conffile mechanism), and he cites policy to support this. However, since the defa