Bug#38212: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] rewrite of section 5.7

1999-05-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 11:46:28AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > You have decided that xfree86-common has to be of standard priority. > > > I think this is not ok because it is not needed at all. > > > > I have made no such decision. The decision was made for me. > > > > When package A has a

Re: How to make/vote for a formal policy proposal

1999-05-27 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 01:56:19PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Manoj, you might want to clean this up a little (a lot of it reads as > a proposal rather than a procedure) and make it accessible from the > developer's corner. All in your copious free time, of course. Or put it in the policy manu

Re: How to make/vote for a formal policy proposal

1999-05-27 Thread Steve Greenland
On 27-May-99, 11:02 (CDT), Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How exactly do you make a formal policy proposal? I had a look at the > policy and couldn't find a chapter describing it. Is that in a > different file? > http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/policy/ch3.html Manoj, you might wa

How to make/vote for a formal policy proposal

1999-05-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
How exactly do you make a formal policy proposal? I had a look at the policy and couldn't find a chapter describing it. Is that in a different file? May the Source be with you. Goswin

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully!

1999-05-27 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 26 May, 1999, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:35:57AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > > I changed the description so it does not say it is a mirror anymore: > > Creation of a sub-directory aside from main, contrib, non-free named > data. > > I will really like to see

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages]

1999-05-27 Thread Fabien Ninoles
Quoting Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 05:53:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Seconded, this seems a good solution. > > Normally I would second this, however I'm going to hold out because > wichert has a more complete solution he's planning to toss out sonn

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages]

1999-05-27 Thread Fabien Ninoles
Quoting Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > So I want to make a Suggestion: > > Do you mean a Proposal? Sorry to nit-pick, but I need to know if I'm > supposed to track this like I do other formal Proposals to change policy. May be a draft for a proposal? ;) Sorry to be co

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages]

1999-05-27 Thread Peter Makholm
Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I want to make a Suggestion: > > Creation of a sub-directory aside from main, contrib, non-free named > data. I can't find anything on the official way make proposals to the policy. Is it wrong that official proposals should be bugs against debian

Bug#38212: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] rewrite of section 5.7

1999-05-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 11:25:19AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > The fact that I am able to execute emacs or ghostscript in console mode > > without xfree86-common shows that the dependency of xlib6g on > > xfree86-common is not absolute, and theref

Re: Dead packages bugs

1999-05-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 26 May 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > Closing them appeals to my sense of tidyness, but keeping them open makes > them available for future maintainers to pick up. > > I'd like to see discussion on whether or not to keep them open. Opinions? We could create a new virtual package named "obs

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package

1999-05-27 Thread Shaleh
On 27-May-99 Joseph Carter wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 05:53:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Seconded, this seems a good solution. > > Normally I would second this, however I'm going to hold out because > wichert has a more complete solution he's planning to toss out sonn as > the vo

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages]

1999-05-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 05:53:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seconded, this seems a good solution. Normally I would second this, however I'm going to hold out because wichert has a more complete solution he's planning to toss out sonn as the vote for the logos have been tallied. -- Joseph

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages]

1999-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Fabien Ninoles wrote: > So I want to make a Suggestion: Do you mean a Proposal? Sorry to nit-pick, but I need to know if I'm supposed to track this like I do other formal Proposals to change policy. > - Foo-Scripts; What's a foo-script? -- see shy jo

Bug#38212: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] rewrite of section 5.7

1999-05-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 11:25:19AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > I still fail to see why do I need xfree86-common to execute emacs or > > > ghostview in console mode (as I always was able to do under Debian 2.0). > > > > Because xlib6g depends on xfree86-common. > > I mean I fail to see why x