Bug#76868: invoke-rc.d proposal)

2000-11-15 Thread Anthony Towns
Despite how it may appear, I'm not doing this merely to be obnoxious. :( On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:13:10AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > As I said, they're there to avoid confusing the user. If they had no > possible purpose I'd have removed them before invoke-rc.d ever seen the > light of

Re: Priorities

2000-11-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if the task-* packages are intended solely for the > purview of tasksel, why put them in the main > Packages.gz file? Why not distribute the dependency > information as part of the tasksel package? Because that's a huge pain in the butt, doesn't scale, a

Re: CDDB db grand unifaction

2000-11-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 16:18:47 +0100 (+), Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Dave Swegen wrote: > > What I would like to see is a policy covering how cddb-capable programs > > should behave. Perhaps this is outside the scope of Debian, but if it > > isn't, and there seems to be some interes

Re: [RFC] Measuring skills of a Debian Developer

2000-11-15 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:02:27PM +0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > - I will develop a plan for this idea while keeping in mind every > suggestion and recommendation I have received and will receive from you > - Later this month I'll make a test page for this on people.debian.org. > - When I will co

Bug#76868: invoke-rc.d proposal)

2000-11-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
New revision of the policy proposal is attached. Changelog: (policy) * Remove any mentions of 'restart-if-running'. 'restart-if-running' will be proposed separately. (invoke-rc.d) * Remove any mentions of 'restart-if-running' as well as any related code. * "restart" out-of-run

Bug#76868: invoke-rc.d proposal)

2000-11-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I could leave the more verbosy stuff that fallbacks cause, but THAT would > > give quite a lot of room to user confusion. When someone starts the holy > > war against the amount of crap a upgrade sends to the screen, and AFTER the > > TeX and emacsen-r

Bug#76868: invoke-rc.d proposal)

2000-11-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 07:34:46AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:06:36PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > If you hide error messages, you'll make it harder for people to notice > > bugs in their init scripts when th

Bug#76868: invoke-rc.d proposal)

2000-11-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:06:36PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > If you hide error messages, you'll make it harder for people to notice > bugs in their init scripts when they upload a new package (let's see, > yup, seems to work fine in my postinst,