Re: policy summary

2000-01-05 Thread James Deikun
>So you are saying that packers are omitting an EXISTING manpage, and instead >putting a link to the undocumented.7 page? You are right, this IS >a bug, and yes, its the kind that is unlikely to be found for quite a while. >However, what about the more common case where there IS no manpage? Then

Bug#53849: PROPOSAL: emacs/tex downgrading to optional

2000-01-05 Thread James Deikun
>I am. And emacs is practically the only editor I use. Emacs is HUGE, and >I totally -agree- with the rights of a person to say "I don't want it, Also emacs has several variants, and most people who use it regularly have opinions on which one they want, and probably don't want to waste space on tw

Re: policy summary

2000-01-05 Thread Chris Waters
Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So you are saying that packers are omitting an EXISTING manpage, and instead > putting a link to the undocumented.7 page? No, what he's saying is that people *routinely* use undocumented(7) *without* any bug report on file. (And a smaller but still

Re: policy summary

2000-01-05 Thread Jonathan Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- So you are saying that packers are omitting an EXISTING manpage, and instead putting a link to the undocumented.7 page? You are right, this IS a bug, and yes, its the kind that is unlikely to be found for quite a while. However, what about the more common case

Bug#53759: revision of the "to build with X support or not" policy

2000-01-05 Thread Greg Stark
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:39:34PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > I'm not going to second this proposal. > > > > I think that it misses the real issue in favor of a rhetorical position. > > I disagree. The rationale for this proposal was twofold: >

VA.debian.org runs LDAP now

2000-01-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Hi all, I spent the entire evening today converting VA to LDAP and cleaning out alot of cruft. In the process I had to renumber several of CVS repository group IDs, I hope this doesn't effect anything but if something goes funny, this might be why. There was some downtime on www user pages (~jgg