Re: Bug#47438: copyright statement needs updating?

1999-10-20 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So what should it say? Would an extra line: Copyright (c)1998,1999 >> Debian Policy List Members be appropriate? Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IANAL, but I believe that only a legally recognized entity (person, > organization, whatever)

Bug#47438: copyright statement needs updating?

1999-10-20 Thread Joost Kooij
Hi, On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 07:20:05PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > /usr/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/index.html: > > > > > > Copyright (c)1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz. > > > > > > Yet the manual has been modified

Re: Bug#47438: copyright statement needs updating?

1999-10-20 Thread Chris Waters
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So what should it say? Would an extra line: > Copyright (c)1998,1999 Debian Policy List Members > be appropriate? IANAL, but I believe that only a legally recognized entity (person, organization, whatever) can assert copyright. When Manoj asked me to

Re: bitmap and pixmap location

1999-10-20 Thread Chris Waters
Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we should standardize around /usr/include/X11/{bitmap,pixmap}. > I thought that include was a place for storing C header files. Yes I > have looked at an xpm before, but even so, it is still an odd

Bug#47438: copyright statement needs updating?

1999-10-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
> On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 07:20:05PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > /usr/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/index.html: > > > > Copyright (c)1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz. > > > > Yet the manual has been modified by others since. Should the copyright > > be updated? > > B

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-20 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 20, Anthony Towns wrote: > The policy weekly summary includes ``I further propose that the use > of bzip2 be mandatory for newly uploaded source files''. This has been > both seconded and objected to (its Bug#39299). I wouldn't say any sort > of consensus has been reached personally. It need

Re: bitmap and pixmap location

1999-10-20 Thread Edward Betts
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bitmaps: /usr/X11R6/include/bitmaps > This is wrong. > > > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps > This is correct. > > > pixmaps: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps > This is correct. > > > /usr/sha

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 05:47:13AM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > On Wed, 20 October 1999 11:07:47 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Now, who of the ones that *can* change policy is going to do > > > anything on it? Please, can some of those give the many of > > > us an idea of what is the problem

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-20 Thread Alexander Koch
Hi Anthony. On Wed, 20 October 1999 11:07:47 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Now, who of the ones that *can* change policy is going to do > > anything on it? Please, can some of those give the many of > > us an idea of what is the problem or (possibly) what I am > > getting wrong? > > (a) There's

Bug#39299: dpkg-source patch (Re: #39299 (bz2 format for source packages))

1999-10-20 Thread Chris Lawrence
Following the .signature is a patch for dpkg that implements bzip2 support in dpkg-source and dpkg-buildpackage. For example: dpkg-buildpackage -bz2 -rfakeroot Note that dpkg-source -x will detect bz2 archives automatically; you just need to tell it to use bz2 when building. Also, diffs are not

Re: bitmap and pixmap location

1999-10-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:01:26PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I've just been looking at Contents-i386 to get an idea of where > bitmaps and pixmaps are currently stored so that I can set up the new > system.fvwm2rc file correctly, and I found a mess. The locations of > public (as opposed to app

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-20 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 20, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Now, who of the ones that *can* change policy is going to do > > anything on it? Please, can some of those give the many of > > us an idea of what is the problem or (possibly) what I am > > getting wrong? > > (a) There's not much point changing policy when the c

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:56:39PM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > On Mon, 18 October 1999 13:15:36 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > On Oct 18, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Another possibility would be someone adding bzip2 support to dpkg et al, > > > and having .orig.tar.bz2's, and data.tar.bz2. (Thi