Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 02:43:32PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Basically, yes. But, wishes are intangible... That there are something > like 2000 packages out there which haven't implemented /usr/share/doc/ > should have been sufficient clue. Joey Hess did chose not to implement this change yet

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-30 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 07:26:47PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > I've been gone a week; this mail is a kind of summary reply, where I > pull together a number of threads. Often, those are the best kinds of replies. On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:50:57PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > That wo

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-30 Thread Richard Braakman
I've been gone a week; this mail is a kind of summary reply, where I pull together a number of threads. Raul Miller wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:50:57PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > > That would be awful. Having to wait while something is rubberstamped, > > just to get around an issue

Bug#43757: My emacs can't find some info files

1999-08-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: debian-policy, emacs19, glibc-doc Version: not known, 19.34-21, 2.1.1-12 I have: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name

Processed: Maintainer unknown

1999-08-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 43629 spam Bug#43629: Cuando este conforme con nuestro trabajo nos paga. Bug assigned to package `spam'. > reassign 43669 perl-tk Bug#43669: Problems with BrowseEntry Bug assigned to package `perl-tk'. > reassign 43724 debian-policy Bug#43724

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raul> Technical policy is supposed to be ratified by the technical committee. Raul> [The committee hadn't been doing its job, but that doesn't free any of Raul> us from the responsibility for failures in technical policy.] If that

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raul> Yes. What you're thinking is pretty close to what I'm thinking. Hmm. In that case, I'd prefer a paraphrase of your one sentence description -- "policy should not make changes that contradict currrent policy withiout allowin

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 12:00:08PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 3) Once a reasonable number (to be decided, reasonable could also > be nearly all) have moved away from the legal but deprecated > old AA method to the new BB method, policy can be changed to > say BB i