> Comments, seconds anyone?
I second this.
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Section 12.6: the para which currently reads:
>
>The mail spool is `/var/spool/mail' and the interface to send a mail
>message is `/usr/sbin/sendmail' (as per the FHS). ...
>
> should be changed to:
>
>The mail spool is `/var/mail' and the i
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:25:41PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> MUST -> RC if it doesn't conform
> SHOULD -> Normal/RC bug if it doesn't conform, unless there's a
> really good reason not to conform
> will-be-MUST -> eventually it will be an RC bug not to conform, but
>
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:15:02PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> There is an important difference between how you are viewing should
> and how the current policy document views should. I tend to notice
> this difference because of work within the IETF, but I believe my
> interpretation is suppor
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:15:02PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> One of the more obvious reasons for not following a should guideline
> is that it's a new guideline and the maintainer hasn't gotten around
> to following it. However, I suspect there are significant classes of
> guidelines that will a
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes:
Anthony> --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain;
Anthony> 2) Sometimes it's appropriate to raise the bar on what
Anthony> we want included in Debian; that's what the difference
Anthony> between "MUST" and "SHOULD" is meant to reflect
I was looking through old proposals, and saw this one. It discusses
changing policy to refer to /var/mail instead of /var/spool/mail. The
discussion sort of hung, but in the meantime, events have overtaken
it: both base-files and libc6 essentially do the following:
if /var/spool/mail is a direct
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:05:19PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > The reason I'm suggesting this is that there is talk of dpkg being
> > able to selectively ignore (not install) certain directory trees.
> > Now, if someone decides to ignore /usr/share/doc, the original method
> > will break, but t
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.2.0
> Severity: wishlist
>
> [Following from a thread on -mentors]
>
> The question: can you have a default configuration file in
> /usr/share/doc which is copied by the postinst to /etc if it does not
> yet exist?
>
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.2.0
Severity: wishlist
[Following from a thread on -mentors]
The question: can you have a default configuration file in
/usr/share/doc which is copied by the postinst to /etc if it does not
yet exist?
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:21:06PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote:
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