Bug#75518: debian-policy: link to FHS is droken

2000-10-25 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Martin Michlmayr writes: >> Do you know what's the new location? It seems like it just expired >> from the DNS, so it should be fixed. I recently mailed Daniel >> Quinlan about linuxbase.org, it had also expired -- however this >> time there's a problem, because his address in the whois database i

Bug#75518: debian-policy: link to FHS is droken

2000-10-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20001025 22:09]: > > The link in section 3.1.1 to http://www.pathname.com/fhs is > > broken; that host name no longer exists. > > Do you know what's the new location? It seems like it just expired > from the DNS, so it should be

Bug#75518: debian-policy: link to FHS is droken

2000-10-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 08:12:27PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 3.1.1.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > The link in section 3.1.1 to http://www.pathname.com/fhs is broken; > > that host name no longer exists. > >

Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-10-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:41:24AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > This would require lots of changes to packages. > so we change lots of packages. Sure. But if anyone can think of a solution that gives the same results but doesn't require changes to lots of packages, that'd be better. So

Bug#75518: debian-policy: link to FHS is droken

2000-10-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 08:12:27PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.1.1.1 > Severity: normal > > The link in section 3.1.1 to http://www.pathname.com/fhs is broken; > that host name no longer exists. Do you know what's the new location? It seems like it just

Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > This would require lots of changes to packages. > so we change lots of packages. Debian is being used by IS more and more these days. At VA alone we have some 100+ Debian machines now. The current package setup makes this a headache for updates. Being able to log output and ensure that t

Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-10-25 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) wrote on 24.10.00 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Brian May wrote: > > How about something like this: > > > > Messages should only be displayed on the console if: > > > > - it represents a slow task, eg compiling modules (emacs) or compiling > > ls-R files (latex). Of cour