Re: Must and should again

2001-04-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:44:26PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 11-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: > > We don't really have any standard way of saying "you really should do > > this as it's a really good thing to do, but there's no requirement to > > do so (and hence not a reason to file bu

Bug#76868: AMENDMENT 2001-02-27] invoke-rc.d interface to invoke initscripts

2001-04-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:51:08AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I would like to put this amendment into the next version of policy in > > the next few weeks. However, the scripts still do not appear to be in > > the sysvinit or file-rc packages;

Bug#72335: PROPOSAL] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules

2001-04-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:15:36PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 20010411T191823+0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I've just found an issue which must be resolved whether this proposal > > is accepted or not. At present, the Build-{Depends,Conflicts}-Indep > > lists do not apply to the bu

Re: New versions of the FHS

2001-04-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:03:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > What do people think of this idea? The only change it will require in > > policy is specifying "FHS version 2.1" in place of "FHS" when we > > discuss it. (Exact diff will be supplied if needed.) > > > > We should definate

RE: Must and should again

2001-04-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: > We don't really have any standard way of saying "you really should do > this as it's a really good thing to do, but there's no requirement to > do so (and hence not a reason to file bug reports)". > I thought we were using RFC definitions of must and should,

CVS jdg: * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!

2001-04-11 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: jdg Wed Apr 11 14:40:23 PDT 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml debian : changelog rules Log message: * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time! * Also i

Must and should again

2001-04-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
We don't really have any standard way of saying "you really should do this as it's a really good thing to do, but there's no requirement to do so (and hence not a reason to file bug reports)". Any thoughts? (The case I was thinking of was the build-arch/build-indep stuff.) Julian -- =-=-=-=

Bug#72335: PROPOSAL] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules

2001-04-11 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010329T112958+0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > OK, after Wichert's comments, here is a new version of the proposed > amendment to policy. Seconded. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% pgpHcMbbIlovJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#72335: PROPOSAL] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules

2001-04-11 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010411T191823+0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I've just found an issue which must be resolved whether this proposal > is accepted or not. At present, the Build-{Depends,Conflicts}-Indep > lists do not apply to the build target. This is incorrect. This > proposal already fixes this issue. It w

RE: New versions of the FHS

2001-04-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> What do people think of this idea? The only change it will require in > policy is specifying "FHS version 2.1" in place of "FHS" when we > discuss it. (Exact diff will be supplied if needed.) > We should definately document the version of any policy we follow -- LSB, FHS, etc. Do you have an

Bug#72335: PROPOSAL] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules

2001-04-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
I've just found an issue which must be resolved whether this proposal is accepted or not. At present, the Build-{Depends,Conflicts}-Indep lists do not apply to the build target. This is incorrect. This proposal already fixes this issue. This is still looking for seconds: Antti-Juhani and Roman,

New versions of the FHS

2001-04-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
There is a new version of the FHS in the pipeline, as is being discussed on the FHS mailing list. I am wary, though, given our experiences of previous transitions, of automatically adopting it without due care and consideration. I would like to suggest, therefore, that policy should specify the v

Processed: Re: Bug#93620: ftp.debian.org: debian-policy recommends a nonexistent package

2001-04-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 93620 debian-policy Bug#93620: ftp.debian.org: debian-policy recommends a nonexistent package Bug reassigned from package `ftp.debian.org' to `debian-policy'. > merge 93620 86507 Bug#86507: recommends removed package Bug#93620: ftp.debian.org:

Re: Bug#93620: ftp.debian.org: debian-policy recommends a nonexistent package

2001-04-11 Thread Anthony Towns
reassign 93620 debian-policy merge 93620 86507 thanks On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:37:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] kwrote: > debian-policy 3.5.2.0 in woody and unstable recommends > packaging-manual but packaging-manual only exists in stable. Either > debian-policy should not recommend packag