Programs for non-free operating systems

1999-07-02 Thread Timothy Baldwin
What dependencies on non-free software are exceptable for programs which run on a non-free (ROM based) operating system? What about the inclusion of non-free headers, libraries and library stubs in the binary? The programs in question are a bootloader, a boot menu, a ext2 reader and installation s

Re: Bug#38902: Data section

1999-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
Darren O. Benham wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 01:42:58PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > Data section (#38902) > > * Under discussion. > > * Proposed on 3 Jun 1999 by Darren O. Benham; seconded by Peter S > > Galbraith. > I thought there was another second...?? Oh, my mistake. Two Peter's

Bug#38902: Data section

1999-07-02 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 01:42:58PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Data section (#38902) > * Under discussion. > * Proposed on 3 Jun 1999 by Darren O. Benham; seconded by Peter S > Galbraith. I thought there was another second...?? > * "Since there is interest in packaging census data, maps, g

Weekly policy summary

1999-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
Here's what's been happening on debian-policy this week. (41 emails) The big news this week is policy 3.0.0.0. Very little other activity. Note: for details of the policy process, see http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/policy/ch3.html. Also, this summary is available on the web at http://kitenet.net

Re: /var/spool/mail AND ~user/mail/incomingmail

1999-07-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 02, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Another problem is setting the environment variables, eg MAIL and >MAILDIR in one place for a system wide policy. > >Comments? I think programs should look in $MAIL for a mbox mailbox. Maybe in $MAILDIR too for a maildir mailbox, I don't know.

Re: /var/spool/mail AND ~user/mail/incomingmail

1999-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 05:32:08PM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote: > I'd like to see support for the user's mail being in their own home dir. > It's much easier to keep track of each person's usage. This really has to be done on a system-by-system basis. Though I do agree that where possible programs sho

Re: Old bugs

1999-07-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Jul-99, 09:17 (CDT), Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #29770: Policy should be clearer about conffiles and configuration >files: conffiles are those listed in DEBIAN/conffiles; >configuration files might not be listed. And packages should not >be permitted to direct

Re: /var/spool/mail AND ~user/mail/incomingmail

1999-07-02 Thread Charles C. Fu
Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'd like to see support for the user's mail being in their own home >> dir. It's much easier to keep track of each person's usage. Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not to mention more secure... And can result in a lighter load than the traditional

Re: /var/spool/mail AND ~user/mail/incomingmail

1999-07-02 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hi, > >I'd like to see support for the user's mail being in their own home dir. >It's much easier to keep track of each person's usage. Not to mention more secure... Personally, I prefer $HOME/Maildir and $HOME/lists/Maildir1 $HOME/lists/Maildir2 ...

/var/spool/mail AND ~user/mail/incomingmail

1999-07-02 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi, I'd like to see support for the user's mail being in their own home dir. It's much easier to keep track of each person's usage. -Jim

Re: new policy revision

1999-07-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
The package description still contains: This package contains: - Debian Policy Manual - Linux Filesystem Structure (FSSTND) Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED]