On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Chris Waters wrote:
> Gecko promptly rejected this and closed the bug report, saying that
> policy allows the use of undocumented.
Policy allows the use of undocumented, but it also says, that there
has to be a bug report open, if a link to undocumented.7 is used.
If a bug
On 13-Jan-00, 16:16 (CST), Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, sometimes I'm hit by a killer bug, or want to upgrade a
> particular package to the latest and greatest version. Often it's a
> while before I can update to the latest stable, and in the meantime a
> security fix comes o
Hi,
After some of the discussions here, it occurred to me that having
lintian be quiet about the use of undocumented(7) might not be a good
idea, since such use *is* a bug. So I filed a bug report against
lintian (#55081), asking for it to issue a warning about the use of
undocumented(7).
Gecko
On 13-Jan-00, 16:39 (CST), Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:01:33AM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Richard Braakman writes ("Re: policy summary"):
> > > Frankly, I like the idea. I think packages are being created far too
> > > lightly these days. Writing a
Package: packaging-manual
Version: N/A
The fact that most maintainers don't need to perform builds on the
non-x86 architectures could use some clarification. I'd suggest that
either the packaging manual have a section on multiple architecture
support, or a mention is made in the developer's guide
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:05:22PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> FWIW, a package that I uploaded was rejected, with a comment "using
> lintian would have pointed this out"; when I replied that in fact the
> "error" that was being objected to was in fact an intentional
> decision, I didn't even ge
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 01:39:22PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > If a package expects logrotate to be present, as shown by it providing
> > an /etc/logrotate.d/* file, then it can express this to the packaging
> > system by putting "logrotate" in its Depends: field...
>
> Obviously. This wasn't
Previously Ben Collins wrote:
> After that, when woody first forks (this weekend I suspect), then I can
> add the code to woody's dpkg. So it is only a matter for a few days (maybe
> a week depending on how my time permits) till this will be available.
Tomorrow actually, I'll upload a new dpkg tom
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