Re: Debian membership (with a twist)

1999-10-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 01:26:37PM -0400, Steve Willer wrote: > Yes, this is exactly the problem, and it's a big reason why I installed > FreeBSD over Debian last night. I had hoped that the new school year would Just us on debian-bsd, then? It's a bit dead presently but it was pretty lively a fe

Re: Debian membership (with a twist)

1999-10-03 Thread Steve Willer
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Yves Arrouye wrote: > Debian has some big advantages over any other distribution I know of > that make me want to contribute to Debian rather than another one. But > months for getting a membership, isn't that risking that new volunteers > will turn to Mandrake or Stampede for

Bug#46516: PROPOSAL] MIME support sub-policy

1999-10-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 06:51:44PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > + > + Packages which provide the ability to view/show/play, > + compose, edit or print MIME types should register themselves > + as such following the current MIME support policy as > + defined in the

Re: Debian membership (with a twist)

1999-10-03 Thread Yves Arrouye
> Did you explain this to new-maintainer ? Do you still have your old PGP > key ? I did explain that. Since nobody answered, I have no idea if it's been received (except for my mail not bouncing, that is). I don't have my old PGP key. In fact, if you look at the keyservers, you'll see that I've n

Bug#46516: PROPOSAL] MIME support sub-policy

1999-10-03 Thread Raul Miller
> >if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-mime ]; then >update-mime >fi > Seconded. [As far as I can tell, you're documenting existing practice.] -- Raul

Bug#46522: [knghtbrd@debian.org: Re: SSH never free]

1999-10-03 Thread Raul Miller
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.0.1.1 Proposal to change section 2.1.4 Included in this message: diff against 3.0.1.1, and forwarded copy of second. *** policy.sgml.3.0.1.1 Sun Oct 3 10:01:29 1999 --- policy.sgml Sun Oct 3 10:01:49 1999 *** *** 399,406 The non-free

Re: Bug#46516: [PROPOSAL] MIME support sub-policy

1999-10-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[I'm replying in public, as others may wonder about this too - hope you don't mind] On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 03:37:53 -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > If you don't mind my asking, why not suggest the mime-support package? This is per update-mime's documentation. The underlying idea being to make it e

Bug#46516: [PROPOSAL] MIME support sub-policy

1999-10-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.0.1.1 Severity: wishlist Background == One of the things many people like in Debian is the level of integration in Debian systems as a whole that results from the integration between packages through our extensions, like the menu mechanism. Another extens