Re: Processed: Do not make hardlinks to conffiles

Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: Processed: Do not make hardlinks to conffiles"): > Isee. Well, if you had read the message in -policy, which > people with ptoposals are supposed to, you would have seen the > substantive response. I can see no relevant message on debian-policy in the last

Processed: should have been reassigned not closed (or bugs I agree with)

Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reopen 11094 Bug#11094: [REJECTED] Policy should mention that serial lines require UUCP-style locking Bug reopened, originator not changed. > reopen 20373 Bug#20373: [REJECTED] shouldn't start init scripts in wrong runlevel Bug reopened, originator no

Bug#23661: /usr/doc should not be accessible through http servers by default

I have just noticed that this bug has been closed. I can find no explanation for its closure in the BTS. I'm reopening it pending discussion. See my other mails. I agree with the suggestion, but think it should be widened to rarely providing any public network services by default. Ian.

Re: Updating the BTS, in preparation for a policy package update

Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: >Umm, I have a little problem with this statement, as it > stands. The implication (and perhaps I am mis interpreting this) > seems to be that the policy documents are merely extended > documentation for dpkg and friends; and dpkg can change behaviour and

Re: CVS srivasta: * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934

Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > If indeed what you say is true, then why was this not brought > out while the proposal was being debated? Probably because at that moment was had an implementation but that was severely broken and pulled out again and I decided to postpone doing it pro

New policy draft available at http://master.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/policy/

Hi, Since it has been a long while since the last policy upgrade, I;ve decided to let people preview this version before moving it to incoming. A) Is the version 4.0.0.0 premature? People mentioned that 3.5.0.0 would have been enough of a jump. B) Is the symlink ordering issue goin

Processed: Re: Processed: Do not make hardlinks to conffiles

Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > close 22935 Bug#22935: [REJECTED] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles Bug closed, ack sent to submitter - they'd better know why ! > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs d

Re: Processed: Do not make hardlinks to conffiles

close 22935 thanks Hi, >>"Debian" == Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Debian> Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> reopen 22935 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug> 22935: [REJECTED] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles Debian> Bug reopened, originator set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CVS srivasta: * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934

>>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> Previously Debian Policy wrote: >> * Documented that the library before the symlink hack (which dependend >> on file system specific kinks to work) is no longer required by newer >> versions of dpkg.

Re: Updating the BTS, in preparation for a policy package update

Hi, >>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> retitle 43724 [OLD PROPOSAL] experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R Wichert> That looks like a misnamed bugreport, it should probably mention Wichert> dpkg-name compliant na

Bug#43077: configuration=--: Seconded.

Several programs I've built, includeing XEmacs-21.2-devel (CVS)[1] will accept only three part `configuration' strings in the form "--". I think it's best that we put "debian" in the field in all builds we do. Several prominent members of the XEmacs Development Team are in agreement; they

Bug#41113: -lib-: Seconded.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a winner of an idea. I think they ought to be named like "--lib", so that they will sort by language, then by "lib", or "", then by (the name of the library or extenditsome). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux