On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 at 14:28, Steve Greenland wrote about "Re: [RFD]:...":
> > Well, the logs weren't created upon installation -- then why do they get
> > automatically removed upon "purge" ? That's the difference between the
> > config files (with even 100 hours of work put into them...they were
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 07:10:02PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> *Any* file that is owned by a package must be declared by that package
> to dpkg, this includes any log files, database files or configuration
> files that the package might create. So, for instance, dpkg -S
> /var/log/apache/access.log w
>>"Seth" == Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Question: would the distribution quality really suffer if we
>> did alienate them?
Seth> Probably not, at least right away. However, in the long run, if
Seth> Debian gets a reputation for being beligerant to its
Seth> developers, peopl
> "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raul> On the other hand, I can certainly understand that rm -rf
Raul> /var/log/apache is both simple and robust.
IMHO, it is the best thing. When I purge a program, I want
to get rid of *everything*.
I do not want to come back in 1
> "Greg" == Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Greg> Having options that are only available from environment
Greg> variables and not from configuration files is a bad
Greg> idea. It's a lesson that has been learned many times in the
Greg> past and it's why that rule in poli
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Juergen A. Erhard wrote:
> If Debian should ever start restricting package inclusion based on
> what a package does (judging quality of packaging is ok), it would be
> time to fork. And I guess there'd be lots of people who'd think the
> same way.
I think if you judge 'qual
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> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jason> On 30 Jan 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Why is there such an imperative need to get every peice of
>> software out there i Debian, no matter how sloppily it is
>>
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.1.1.1
Severity: normal
Basically, the urlname entity is missing by default from the version.ent
file. This means that building policy, menu-policy, and mime-policy fail
by default. Only proposal built correctly. It's a simple thing to add,
but I don't know what th
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:18:56PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 30-Jan-00, 08:53 (CST), Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:18:18PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > > I'd much rather have useful info in README.Debian: this is what you need
> > > to do to
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