Re: Bug#35504: PROPOSAL] Permissions of /var/log.

2000-03-30 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Mark Baker wrote: > They probably should be group adm, though. I would like that, it is annoying to have to add all the admin people to all sorts of groups (with unknown other repercussions) just so they can read logs. I think group adm should allow the reading of most, if

Bug#35504: PROPOSAL] Permissions of /var/log.

2000-03-30 Thread Mark Baker
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:41:44PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Files created by root inside /var/log would be root.adm by default, not > > root.root by default. > > I agree, that would be quite useful. Most of the files in there are already > set up that way, but some aren't, and that makes peo

Bug#61058: marked as forwarded (FHS: /usr/local/share/man instead of /usr/local/man ?)

2000-03-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:18:47 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line /usr/local/man -> /usr/local/share/man has caused the Debian Bug report #61058, regarding FHS: /usr/local/share/man instead of /usr/local/man ? to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstre

Bug#61308: PROPOSAL] Initializing databases by using conffiles.

2000-03-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: > It's already in violation of policy. From section 4.7.3: > > "The other way to do it is to via the maintainer scripts. In this case, > the configuration file must not be listed as a conffile and must not be > part of the package distribution." > [...]

Bug#61308: PROPOSAL] Initializing databases by using conffiles.

2000-03-30 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> The following proposal tries to address cases like Bug #34294. > > \begin{proposal} > Do not initialize a text database by using the conffile mechanism. > \end{proposal} > > Rationale: We should try to reduce prompting to a minimum during upgrades. > 99,999% users will always say "No" to dpkg p