Quoting Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 09:27:57AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> > What kind of packages are we thinking of for data?
> >=20
> > Web mirrors?
> > anarchism - An exhaustive exploration of Anarchist theory and practice.
> > gimp-manual - Manual for the
Quoting "Darren O. Benham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:33:03PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > A few additional rules for your consideration:
> >
> > - The data directory shouldn't be synced to debian releases, and ought
> > to be paralled to dists, not main/contrib/non-
> The data section would be governed by the following rules:
> - No package can depend on a package in data.
Can *solely* depends on a package in data. ORed Depends, if
it's also resolved by a default package in main, is good
in my opinion. Example: A default E-Theme (like icE) in main and
other
"Oliver Elphick" writes:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> >I don't really regard bible-kjv-text as a technical document, but... :)
> It's a manual -- for living.
But it hasn't been updated in a long time, many would say that it's
sadly out of date, and the upstream maintainer doesn't respond to hi
On policy, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> verse doesn't use bible-kjv-text for its source, but a compilation of
> quotes that its original author put together. It is actually a rather
> small package, with a 38Kb deb, including the verses. It's on a par
> with, say, fortune. I don't think it really fi
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 04:29:26PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> bible-kjv-text is the data, bible-kjv the program.
>
> bible-kjv could theoretically handle any text in the same way as the bible,
> but no other text has been formatted for it to work on.
If were as strict as Brandon says... it's u
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 09:27:57AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> Where does that leave bible-kjv, bible-kjv-text and verse?
Personally, I view them as part of the bible and verse program... the
second point should be able to make each case subjective..
>
> Can a package in main recommend a packag
Branden Robinson wrote:
>I don't really regard bible-kjv-text as a technical document, but... :)
It's a manual -- for living.
>If I understood the proposal correctly, bible-kjv and verse would both go
>into the new data section. "verse" because it's designed to work only with
>only one
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 09:27:57AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> What kind of packages are we thinking of for data?
>
> Web mirrors?
> anarchism - An exhaustive exploration of Anarchist theory and practice.
> gimp-manual - Manual for the GNU Image Manipulation Program
> gnu-philosophy - Philosophy
On Bug #38902, "Darren O. Benham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The data section would be governed by the following rules:
> - No package can depend on a package in data.
Where does that leave bible-kjv, bible-kjv-text and verse?
Can a package in main recommend a package in data?
> - No package w
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:33:03PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> A few additional rules for your consideration:
>
> - The data directory shouldn't be synced to debian releases, and ought
> to be paralled to dists, not main/contrib/non-free.
> (Since there are no executables, what's the benef
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 04:45:26PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Thats hardware and dangerous to be wrong. I rather wouldn't let those
> be handled that way. To easy to go wrong. And you don't realy have
> choises there. There is normaly only one xserver that will fit.
That's not a very accurat
A few additional rules for your consideration:
- The data directory shouldn't be synced to debian releases, and ought
to be paralled to dists, not main/contrib/non-free.
(Since there are no executables, what's the benefit of syncing it, with
the presumed multiplying of size and hassle? If a
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 04:43:57PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> That's all it has to provide, because that is the functionality that
> xlib6g provides. The (presumed) point of separating xlib6g from
> xfree86-common is that xfree86-common is not platform specific. If
> Branden merged the package
On 31-May-99, 19:02 (CDT), Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Same question as emacs mini-policy. Whether it has the weight of
> policy is not the same as whether it is included directly in the
> policy document or not.
What's the real benefit of having it be policy? It's just the way
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