On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 06:14:16PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> > Get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks (#39830)
> > * Stalled.
> > * Proposed on 20 Jun 1999 by Roland Rosenfeld; seconded by Chris
> > Waters, Chris Lawrence and Raul Miller.
> > * All programs are still required to provide ma
> Get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks (#39830)
> * Stalled.
> * Proposed on 20 Jun 1999 by Roland Rosenfeld; seconded by Chris
> Waters, Chris Lawrence and Raul Miller.
> * All programs are still required to provide manpages, but
> undocumented.7 is done away with by this proposal.
I
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 11:09:48PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> I propose that "woody" and subsequent releases permit the use of bzip2
> format for source packages. [...]
Sounds good.
> I can't find any section of the policy document that deals with the
> specifics of the soruce package format
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:07:37PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I put
> >
> > export X_AUTHORITY=/home/jgg/.Xauthority
> >
> > in my .xsession - this environment variable is not cleared when you 'su'
> > so you can use X programs as root without any problems. Maybe the de
Your message dated Mon, 3 Jan 2000 23:09:34 -0600
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and subject line Amended proposal being submitted
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your re
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.1.1.1
Severity: wishlist
I propose that "woody" and subsequent releases permit the use of bzip2
format for source packages. Code to handle bzip2-compressed source
packages has been integrated into an experimental release of dpkg, and
could easily be ported to the
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:52:20PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Additions to virtual package list (#53756)
> Policy for "x-terminal-emulator" virtual package and alternative
> (#53757)
> Policy for "x-window-manager" virtual package and alternative (#53758)
> Revision of X application-defaults policy
Well it's been a while, but the summary is back.
Here's what's been happening on debian-policy over the holidays.
Note: for details of the policy process, see
http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/policy/ch3.html. Also, this summary is
available on the web at http://kitenet.net/~joey/policy-weekly.html.
Branden Robinson wrote:
> + Start with a priority of 20.
> + If the window manager supports the Debian menu system,
> + add 20 points if this support is available in the package's
> + default configuration (i.e., no configuration files belonging
> + to the sy
Seconded.
Branden Robinson wrote:
> Also fixes incorrect nomenclature for X.
>
> --
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Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On 3 Jan 2000, Andreas Voegele wrote:
>
> > I'm using vim very often after becoming super-user with su. If vim was
> > linked against X, I would always get an error message on startup
> > because root isn't authorized to connect to the X server.
>
> I put
>
> export
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