On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:53:50PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 09:37:23PM +, Steve Haslam wrote:
> > My position, FWIW, is that packages should depend on logrotate unless
> > they provide a method of rotating the logs when logrotate is not
> > present, in which case th
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 09:37:23PM +, Steve Haslam wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:26:03PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > I see... so I think there should be some policy about logrotate...
>
> I agree.
>
> My position, FWIW, is that packages should depend on logrotate unless
> they pr
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:26:03PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Steve Haslam wrote:
> > Hmm.. actually, there's quite a variation on how packages relate to
> > logrotate: all of Depends, Recommends and Suggests are used.
> >
>
> I see... so I think there should be some po
(debian-policy CC-ed)
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Steve Haslam wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:10:41PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > > mailman installs a file in /etc/logrotate.d but doesn't depend on
> > > logrotate- which means the logs are silently not rotated.
> >
> > it actually recommend
I like this! (Read: seconded) At long last, we may be able to do
away with the regular /usr/X11R6/bin vs. /usr/bin debate!
But if we accept this (which seems likely, given no objections
received so far), let's try to get the icon/pixmap/whatever issue
solved at the same time, because packages wo
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> Do we really have to discuss this again? We asked the technical
> committee some time ago to decide how to smoothly migrate from
> /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc and the decision was that every package has
> to provide /usr/doc/ in potato (either as a dir
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.1.1.1
Severity: normal
It is a somewhat of a pain to find the policy document, as it is not
located in he doc tree along with other Debian-specific docs, but in
Apps/Programming (and so is the packaging manual).
* either Debian is the place, and the Policy and Pa
Greg Stark writes:
>
> Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > You have a cost in being non-standard, and I don't think it is worth it
> > this time. What benefits would give us what you propose?
>
> The cost is greater than /etc/mailname or /etc/papersize ?
>
> Debian lo
Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You have a cost in being non-standard, and I don't think it is worth it
> this time. What benefits would give us what you propose?
The cost is greater than /etc/mailname or /etc/papersize ?
Debian long ago decided not to worry about the issue of
Package: packaging-manual
Version: 3.1.1.1
Please include Japanese translated version of packaging-manual
which is distributed from:
http://ftp.debian.or.jp/debian-jp/dists/potato-jp/main/binary-i386/doc/packaging-manual-ja_3.1.1.1.1_all.deb
(3.1.1.1.1 is just now installed to master-jp and wi
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