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2000-05-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 61308 [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles Bug#61308: [AMMENDMENT 22/04/2000] About the use of conffiles Changed Bug title. > forwarded 61308 debian-policy@lists.debian.org Bug#61308: [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles

Bug#54524: http_proxy and web clients.

2000-05-03 Thread Anthony Towns
Sorry for not noticing this earlier, and I hope the Cc's aren't too much. On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:28:39PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > > > I don't think so - indeed policy says that packages shouldn't depend > > > > on environment variables for their correct behaviour(3.9). [...] > > If

Bug#62948: PROPOSAL] /etc/profile is now in base-files

2000-05-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Actually, this is a factual error in policy, and as such, should not need to go through a discussion and consensus: when we unstymie the the policy process this should just be changed to reflect reality. manoj >>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: S

Re: mail spool

2000-05-03 Thread Joseph Carter
I could try to sort through that and try to answer specific questions in the order asked, however I think the answers make more sense if I don't. The reason for a common mail spool in mbox format is that it is the standard. Many people (myself included) do not use the mbox format other than for