Suggestion: Post-installation README file

1999-10-30 Thread Daniel Barclay
Could you all please consider this suggestion for a standard post-installation read-me file? This is something I was reminded of on the Debian-Java list: --- Start of forwarded message --- ... Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:16:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... To:

Re: /etc/ppp/ip-{up|down}.d/

1999-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 10:49:13PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Christian Hammers wrote: > > I propose to make a short note to the developers-reference or > > debian-policy telling the developers that they should take care > > of this or even forcing lintian to print warnings if scr

Re: Packaging Manual is policy

1999-10-30 Thread Martin Mitchell
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 3.2.5. `debian/files' > > Must not ship in a shipped source package > > I tend to disagree this needs to be in policy. This should be in policy - it causes no end of problems for people doing binary only recompilations on other archs. >From the other

Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

1999-10-30 Thread Chris Waters
Roman Hodek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because auto-generating parts of src-deps saves a lot of work and > errors for the maintainers, just like auto-generating parts of binary > deps does... *Parts*, fine, I have no problem with parts. I was just a little croggled by the example of trying to

Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

1999-10-30 Thread Chris Waters
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I personally find this useful (especially the diffstat): [nifty little script elided] My comments about Mr. Hess being the God of Packaging are redoubled! cheers :-) -- Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a truly elegant proof of the or[

Re: Packaging Manual is policy

1999-10-30 Thread Joey Hess
> > I tend to disagree this needs to be in policy. > > This should be in policy - it causes no end of problems for people doing > binary only recompilations on other archs. I'm not saying it's not important! I just feel that having to delete that file every time is a technical point of trivia th

Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

1999-10-30 Thread Joey Hess
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > # zgrep +++ *.diff.gz I personally find this useful (especially the diffstat): ( lintian ../build/${package}_${version}*changes dpkg --info ../build/${package}_${version}*.deb zcat ../build/${package}_${version}*.diff.gz | diffstat cat ../build/${package}_${version}*.ch

Re: /etc/ppp/ip-{up|down}.d/

1999-10-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian Hammers wrote: > I propose to make a short note to the developers-reference or > debian-policy telling the developers that they should take care > of this or even forcing lintian to print warnings if scripts > are not prefixed. If you do this you should probably also come up