Proposal for Provides:

1999-10-11 Thread Tomasz W?grzanowski
I suggest there should be Provides-Corporeal (real files of other package, mostly lib, versioned) and Provieds-Virtual {any program of a kind ex:wwwbrowser, not versioned} cause there are problems with unversioned Provides now (ex: lib{gtk,gtk-imlib,gnome}-perl and econfigedit) and there is no need

Bug#38902: bi]weekly policy summary

1999-10-11 Thread Josip Rodin
[cut the CC: field!] On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 12:22:52PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > Permit/require use of bz2 for source packages (#39299) > > > * Old. > > > * Proposed on 10 Jun 1999 by Chris Lawrence; seconded by Goswin > > > Brederlow. > > > * "I propose that we permit the use

Re: compiled examples and more

1999-10-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 09:41:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 11:18:10PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > For clarification, we did agree that rc.boot should remain for local > > > sysadmin use did we not? > > > > I don't remember, but /etc/init.d/rcS still checks for /

Re: compiled examples and more

1999-10-11 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 11:18:10PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > For clarification, we did agree that rc.boot should remain for local > > sysadmin use did we not? > > I don't remember, but /etc/init.d/rcS still checks for /etc/rc.boot > for compatibility. It's just deprecated (see rc.boot(5)).

Re: rc.local

1999-10-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 10:15:17AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 03:11:22AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > I think this is a good idea. I recently set up a Debian potato system > > to be a web terminal, thus I had to run a startx on boot. However, > > /etc/init.d/rmnologi

Re: rc.local

1999-10-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 03:11:22AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > I think this is a good idea. I recently set up a Debian potato system > to be a web terminal, thus I had to run a startx on boot. However, > /etc/init.d/rmnologin is by default run at 99, which is bad if I want > to have stuff happe