> "Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ian> The next question to ask ourselves is: who decides on these
Ian> categories and who decides on which packages are in them ?
Ian> Clearly the categories need to be decided on centrally, so
Ian> their descriptions can be specified c
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:32:42PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I see that the policy manual has been changed (s3.1) to require FHS
> compliance rather than FSSTND compliance.
>
> I'd like to make two proposals:
>
> * That we make an exception for /var/state. Ie, we mandate that
> packages us /va
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.0.0.0
I think most of us will agree that we need some kind of way of
distributing and automatically using regression test suites. We need
to do this in a way that allows people to download just the .deb and
the regression tests, without the full source archive, a
As required by the policy amendment guidelines, and as the proposer
of this amendment, I'm setting the discussion period to two weeks.
It started on 23th of July, 1999, when the proposal entered amendment
status, and will end on 6th of August, 1999.
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%%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTE
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:01:48PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I strongly agree with the proposal. If you still need seconds, count
> me as one.
No, I don't, but thanks anyway :-)
> I therefore suggest the following list
>Build-Depends
>Build-Depends-Indep
>Build-Depends-Arch
>Bu
At 17:32 +0100 1999-07-25, Ian Jackson wrote:
I see that the policy manual has been changed (s3.1) to require FHS
compliance rather than FSSTND compliance.
I'd like to make two proposals:
* That we make an exception for /var/state. Ie, we mandate that
packages us /var/lib. This change has no
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:32:42PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I'd like to make two proposals:
>
> * That we make an exception for /var/state.
...
> * That we make an exception for /var/mail.
These both exceptions are already part of Policy and AFAIK will also
be part of the next version of FHS.
I see that the policy manual has been changed (s3.1) to require FHS
compliance rather than FSSTND compliance.
I'd like to make two proposals:
* That we make an exception for /var/state. Ie, we mandate that
packages us /var/lib. This change has no purpose and will only be
hassle for us.
* That
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I submit that the desired user interface is that the user is offered
> (by defautlt) a set of `categories' or `keywords' or whatever,
> something like
>
> Standard internet protocol clients.
> Software development tools.
>
> and gets to choose whether
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes ("Bug#41232: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Build-time
dependencies on binary packages"):
> I have re-read the discussion, and I think some points raised are valid.
> I'm hereby changing my proposal.
>
> The proposal has been seconded by Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
I've seen a couple of suggestions about the general problem that we
have too many packages and the users can't be expected to decide about
them all. I think we need to decide what the desired user interface
is, and then how to implement it.
I submit that the desired user interface is that the use
Hi,
[I think, since this is a dead proposal, there is not much
point carrying out what has become a nit picking discussion
about the nature of flaws and the meannig of requirements. As
usual, I think we have moved into one of our endless dabates
that lead to
I'm a Debian user. I use it as part of my ISP operation.
I've always been confused and frustrated about where to find files on
Unix and Linux systems.
For instance, I do work on a FreeBSD system where I regularly have to
deal with configuration files in /etc, /usr/local/etc, /var/smtpd/etc,
/us
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