Bug#33076: PROPOSED] Definition of extra priority

1999-02-10 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > Ok. To make it fully clear, I hereby change my earlier proposal to > this one: > > extra > > "This contains all packages that conflict with others with required, > important, standard or optional priorities, or are only likely to be > useful if you alr

Bug#33076: PROPOSED] Definition of extra priority

1999-02-10 Thread Santiago Vila
Ok. To make it fully clear, I hereby change my earlier proposal to this one: extra "This contains all packages that conflict with others with required, important, standard or optional priorities, or are only likely to be useful if you already know what they are or have specialised requirements."

Bug#33156: debian-policy: Cannot find referenced file in given URL

1999-02-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 15:29:38 -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > This reference should be deleted, or the URL updated. >From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ I gather the canonical URL nowadays is ftp://perl.com/pub/perl/versus/csh.whynot.gz Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSI

Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?

1999-02-10 Thread Shaleh
On 09-Feb-99 Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 09, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Seems like a good idea. Maybe we can even get a Debian BSD someday (= The > >BSD's could use a nice packager like dpkg. > AFAIK the do not want to use it because it is GPLed. They happily use gcc and friends (=

Bug#33156: debian-policy: Cannot find referenced file in given URL

1999-02-10 Thread Bob Hilliard
Package: debian-policy Version: 2.5.0.0 Section 4.4 of the packaging manual refers to "Csh Programming Considered Harmful", on rtfm.mit.edu, in /pub/usenet-by-group/comp.unix.programmer. This file is not now in that directory. This reference should be deleted, or the URL updated. Bob