Moving doc section of policy and packaging manuals

2000-06-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
I would like to move the dhelp sections of debian-policy and packaging-manual to debian rather than programming, as they are Debian-specific. Does anyone have any objections to this? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, De

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

2000-06-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > I've just read through the virtual packages list, and there's barely a > > virtual package which either doesn't do this already, for example awk > > says: > > awk Anything providing suitable /usr/bin/{awk,nawk} (

Updating policy

2000-06-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
Does anyone have any objections to me uploading a revised version of -policy in the next few weeks? It'll be based on Manoj's unreleased 4.0.0.0 together with more recent proposals, and I plan to number it 3.5.0.0. As I go through the proposals in the BTS, I may say that some of them will go in u