re: mail spool

2000-05-02 Thread jrfern
Sorry to intrude, as a non-maintainer | non-expert | no-guru maybe this is just noise to the list and the topic has been discussed before and wisely solved, but there's one point I cannot see: why should having a user-directory spool (as in qmail's Mailbox) with a link in /var/mail and|or /var/spoo

Re: Alternative names in upstream changelogs

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-May-00, 01:40 (CDT), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [w.r.t. preserving the names of upstream changelogs] > The default would become -k if something about preserving names was > added to policy. > > I don't think the name always has to be preserved, it seems that in some > cases ther

Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-05-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:59:42AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > update-rc.d has no way of knowing if the symlinks in the rc directories > > > aren't there because the local admin removed them, or because the package > > > was just installed. > > So you should leave the K scripts about, rath

Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-05-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:14:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:59:15PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > update-rc.d has no way of knowing if the symlinks in the rc directories > > aren't there because the local admin removed them, or because the package > > was just i

Re: Alternative names in upstream changelogs

2000-05-02 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Greenland wrote: > > Fine if you don't care about preserving the name. It can be important to > > preserve the name if some other document refers to CHANGES, or if > > you think the upstream author might refer to the CHANGES sometime or > > be annoyed that you renamed it. > > > > I don't thi

Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-05-02 Thread Seth R Arnold
* Anthony Towns [000501 22:14]: > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:59:15PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > update-rc.d has no way of knowing if the symlinks in the rc directories > > aren't there because the local admin removed them, or because the package > > was just installed. > > So you should l

Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-05-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:59:15PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > update-rc.d has no way of knowing if the symlinks in the rc directories > aren't there because the local admin removed them, or because the package > was just installed. So you should leave the K scripts about, rather than complet