Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:29:39PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > It's so sad to see something so simple turning into a policy debate. At least the argument is over what to do and not who should be allowed to do it like most Debian arguments are these days. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:55:53AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:05:08PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > I was under the impression that the partitioning between debian/main > > > and non-US/main was only due to the archive's location in the US. > > > > Excellent observa

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:05:08PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > I was under the impression that the partitioning between debian/main > > and non-US/main was only due to the archive's location in the US. > > Excellent observation of the obvious. And since nothing in main can depend > on anything o

Re: fetchmail-ssl (was: Re: Crypto and US - the time is nigh)

2000-05-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:28:43AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 16, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'll make a fetchmail-ssl package if noone else wants to; I'm using a > >locally compiled copy myself right now. > Look at the dlopen trick I implemented for the mutt woody pa

Bug#64304: A question about uploading to "frozen"

2000-05-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
Package: packaging-manual Version: 3.1.1.1 Big bug! Thanks for spotting it. Will be fixed in an upcoming version. Distribution should be unstable, frozen, stable or experimental; Section should refer to main, contrib and non-free, etc. Julian On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 04:56:33PM -0400, Brian

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:35:21PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:23:48PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On 17 May 2000, Christian Marillat wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've packaged seahorse a GPL front-end for gnupg. > > > > > > Source: seahorse > > > Section: contri

Packaging Manual mentions `non-free' and `contrib' as distributions, not as sections

2000-05-17 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 04:56:33PM -0400, Brian Mays wrote: > > Read the packaging manual. > > I did, and that's the problem. I suggest that the packaging manual > needs to be changed. Most definitely! It doesn't match the existing situation. > 4.2.14. `Distribution' > -- >

Re: Virtual packages (was Re: Bug#64006:)

2000-05-17 Thread Chris Waters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl R. Witty) writes: > Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But a package which Recommends: www-browser needs no standard > > > interface whatsoever, for example. > > I believe they all fit this template: > > comman