Re: policy manager

1998-10-10 Thread Darren Benham
On 10-Oct-98 Adam P. Harris wrote: > Just yesterday I emailed trying to fix the contacts web > page, specifically updating the maintainership of the Policy, > Packaging Manual, and Developer's Reference. So hopefully they will > update those pages w/o further intervention being required by us...

Zed's slew of PROPOSALS -- can we move on it?

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
I formally second the proposals in the BTS as 26461, 25385, and 21185. I urge the originally submitter to get all the seconds in a row and move towards a vote as quickly as our Policy Policy allows. If we can't get these "no-brainer" type proposals to move through the system at all then we have t

Re: {PROPOSAL} #7890: Policy manual contradicts itself about including docs

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 21 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > - ship HTML versions in the binary package, in the directory > > - /usr/doc/package or its subdirectories. > > + ship HTML versions in a binary package, under the directory > > + /usr/doc/ o

Re: FHS - transition

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > > (See also my post to debian-devel about this. In particular, I'm > > opposed to /var/state and think we should ignore the FHS on this > > point.) > > > > One of the key changes that the FHS has compared to the

Re: Bug#27433: [PROPOSAL]: ldconfig in postinst

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
[BTW, should I CC both the BTS *and* debian-policy?] Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As specified in policy, packages with shared libs generally run "ldconfig" > from "postinst configure". Actually, you're wrong, that's from the Packaging Manual, not the Policy Manual. > Thu

Re: documents

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And what documents did Policy FINIALLY settle on assuming??? Packaging Manual and the Policy Manual. I think they all ceeded me the Developer's Reference. I hope my recent work on that has vindicated the idea that I can turn that document around more q

Re: policy manager

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking over the contacts web page and I notice that there is still a > policy manager listed (and attributed to Ian). I was wondering if there is a > better name to fillin (Manoj?) or if that position should be removed. Just yesterday I emailed tr

Re: terminology issues: distributions, sections, subsections

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just put non-free and contrib as part of the section. bash is in the > base section. xv is in the non-free/graphics section. Hmm. From a taxonomic standpoint, I don't like this, because now when I'm talking about sections, I could either mean "non-free" or