Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 05:10:37AM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > Zed Pobre wrote: > > Part 3: (bug#25385) > > > > Section 4.1 ("Architecture specification strings") should be changed > > to allow the Hurd operating system. This requires that the segment > > reading: > > > > where `' is one

Re: /usr/doc and bash bug

1998-09-13 Thread jdassen
On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Francesco Potorti` wrote: > In August I posted two messages to linux.debian.policy, but no one > answered. Is it because no one was interested in it, or because there is > not a bidirectional gateway between the list and the group? In the latt

Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > Zed Pobre wrote: > > Part 3: (bug#25385) > > > > Section 4.1 ("Architecture specification strings") should be changed > > to allow the Hurd operating system. This requires that the segment > > reading: > > > > where `' is one of the following: i3

/usr/doc and bash bug

1998-09-13 Thread Francesco Potorti`
In August I posted two messages to linux.debian.policy, but no one answered. Is it because no one was interested in it, or because there is not a bidirectional gateway between the list and the group? In the latter case, I'll resend the messages to the list instead. Please someone le

Bug#23408: marked as done ([Fixed in NMU 2.4.1.2] debian-policy: /usr/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch3.html is truncated)

1998-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated 13 Sep 1998 01:27:28 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line A normal version of policy has been released has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now

Bug#23003: marked as done ([Fixed in NMU 2.4.1.2] HTML in debian-policy is incomplete in several sections)

1998-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated 13 Sep 1998 01:27:28 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line A normal version of policy has been released has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now

Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raul> I think that any information worty of displaying in a package's postinst Raul> (aside from prompts) should also appear in the package's description. I think not. __

Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-13 Thread Raul Miller
Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > to: > > If a package has a vitally important piece of information to pass to > the user (such as "don't run me as I am, you must edit the following > configuration files first or you risk your system emitting > badly-formatted messages"), it shoul

Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-13 Thread Richard Braakman
Zed Pobre wrote: > Part 2: (bug#25911) > > Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a subsection of > section 3.3 ("Files"), becoming section 3.3.8, placing it after > "Configuration files". Section 3.3.8 ("Permissions and owners") > should become Section 3.3.9. All subsections of Section

Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Zed" == Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zed> If the upstream changelog file is HTML formatted, it must be Zed> accessable as /usr/doc//changelog.html.gz. Why not changelog.html? That way they can be looked at using any HTML browser. What is the reationale for asking H