Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?

1999-04-20 Thread Brian May
Bredewlow, You have raised a number of important issues. However I think we need to wait until Gordon finishes his proposal he is working on until we start debating again, to ensure that we are all looking at the same set of issues. Otherwise it gets too confusing for everybody involved. >Why do

Debian Quality Assurance Group

1999-04-20 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Here are my questions: Is there some place (document of some kind) where the Quality Assurance 'thing' is defined and described? Does the QA policy have to be part of the Policy, or some other document? If the former, what does a formal policy amendment need to have? PLEASE CC: all replies t

Re: Debian Menus (Was: Re: [PROPOSED] moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy)

1999-04-20 Thread Fabien Ninoles
Quoting "Juergen A. Erhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip first part] > > [SNIP Chris# response] > > I'd propose (if I were a developer), to *not* put everything under the > sun into the default menu. > > Instead, we should make it editable... such that, when the user first > opens the menu, there

Re: /etc/init.d scripts WAS: Re: start-stop-daemon on Debian (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 20-Apr-99, 01:05 (CDT), Brock Rozen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: > > And appending doesn't really help. If you assume that you can't trust > > root's path, then you have to override it, or else you just trade one > > set of problems ("can't find route

Re: Package Dependencies

1999-04-20 Thread Brederlow
Adrian Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The purpose of this message is to inspire discussion with respect to > Debian's package dependency issues. I apologise if this is not the > proper venue for this, but I felt that the dpkg and deity development > lists would be even less appropriate. I als

Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?

1999-04-20 Thread Brederlow
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > > B> When I'm a hurd fan, I can just select debian-hurd and hit the > > B> download key (together with stabling symlincs) and I have my hurd > > B> for all my archs. > > Why not just use apt? Because apt won`t run on HPux and it certainly won`t install

Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?

1999-04-20 Thread Brederlow
Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brederlow writes: > > B> It's not quite a port, it's a different operating system. :) > > Is a system that uses vim instead of elvis a new port or a new > operating system? My answer is neither, it's just an additional > option for basical

Re: /etc/init.d scripts WAS: Re: start-stop-daemon on Debian (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Raul Miller
> > > > Consider su -c /etc/init.d/blah Brock Rozen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What am I missing? We have new sysadmins coming into being every hour. Learning is heuristic. Right now, su -c ... is likely to fail for sbin/ commands. If you change the system so that su -c is practically guaran

Re: /etc/init.d scripts WAS: Re: start-stop-daemon on Debian (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Brock Rozen
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > > > Consider su -c /etc/init.d/blah > > > And if the PATH wasn't appended, how would su -c /etc/init.d/blah be any > > different, except that it may not run? > > So? It's not as if su -c is the only issue involved. And, not running > is only relevant

Re: /etc/init.d scripts WAS: Re: start-stop-daemon on Debian (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Brock Rozen
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: > directories". My point is that if for some reason a bunch of the > standard programs move to some other directory, then that new directory > will need to be added to all the scripts. The scripts don't *know* what > paths they need, except by convention