Re: Redefinition of `extra'

1999-11-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Our `extra' definition is not complied by packages. > Policy says that package which conflicts with `optional' > package should go to `extra'. No httpd nor ftpd respects this. > And I dont see any reason of chosing the only proper {ht,f}tpd I disa

Redefinition of `extra'

1999-11-18 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
Our `extra' definition is not complied by packages. Policy says that package which conflicts with `optional' package should go to `extra'. No httpd nor ftpd respects this. And I dont see any reason of chosing the only proper {ht,f}tpd --- cite --- `extra' This contains all packages

Bug#50565: packaging-manual: update dpkg-shlibdeps example in 3.1.4

1999-11-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
Package: packaging-manual Version: 3.1.1.0 The example in section 3.1.4 of a package requiring dpkg-shlibdeps to give both a Pre-Depends and a Recommends result is out of date: procps no longer seems to do this. Does anyone know of other examples of the same thing? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Bug#48045: debian-policy: non-US is a misnomer

1999-11-18 Thread Philip Hands
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're implying of course that only the US has software patents, > which is false. mp3 encoding is covered by both US and German patents > and IDEA is claimed to be patented in Europe as well as the US (I > think ascom is deliberately misleading as to

Bug#50502: Packaging manual typo /var/lib/dpkg/*.shlibs

1999-11-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 08:05:07AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote: > Package: packaging-manual > Version: 3.1.0.0 > Severity: wishlist > > In the "How to write debian/shlibs.local" section: Corrected in my local version, will be included in the next release. Thanks for the report. Julian -- =-=-=-

Re: objection! [was Re: Icon and pixmap location]

1999-11-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 08:12:43AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:14:05AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > When they say "monochrome", they mean .xbm's. Why not just have a > > > /usr/share/image directory in which images of any format or size

Re: objection! [was Re: Icon and pixmap location]

1999-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 09:26:39PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /usr/share/images/icons (small images meant as window decoration, > desktop-style icons, or button bitmaps) > > /usr/share/images/backgrounds (possibly larger images meant as window or > desktop background, etc.) > > Probably no

Bug#50502: Packaging manual typo /var/lib/dpkg/*.shlibs

1999-11-18 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: packaging-manual Version: 3.1.0.0 Severity: wishlist In the "How to write debian/shlibs.local" section: --- packaging.sgml.old Fri Nov 12 07:56:53 1999 +++ packaging.sgml Fri Nov 12 07:57:51 1999 @@ -4742,7 +4742,7 @@ This file is intended only as a te

Re: objection! [was Re: Icon and pixmap location]

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 04:09:13PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Branden Robinson writes: > > > Well, then, we immediately throw away the advantage that a single > > > directory > > > name gives us. [snip] > My biggest objection is that we haven't

Re: objection! [was Re: Icon and pixmap location]

1999-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 04:09:13PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson writes: > > Well, then, we immediately throw away the advantage that a single directory > > name gives us. > > What are those? It makes searching simple. It guarantees no name collisions in the image filenames themse

Re: objection! [was Re: Icon and pixmap location]

1999-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson writes: > Well, then, we immediately throw away the advantage that a single directory > name gives us. What are those? > We already have several directories in our system that are unspeakably > unwieldy for a human to browse, why should /usr/share/images be any > different?

Re: objection! [was Re: Icon and pixmap location]

1999-11-18 Thread Chris Waters
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We already have several directories in our system that are unspeakably > unwieldy for a human to browse, why should /usr/share/images be any > different? We have a few hundred in some directories; I'm not sure we have several thousand in any yet. Th