Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:05:02PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Anthony Towns [010416 05:54]: > > > Does that possibility satisfy everyone: > > > - MUST and SHOULD change to the universally-recognised IETF meanings > > It's still not clear why this would be a Good Thing. > I like Julian's suggest

Re: Bug#94114: mesag3-glide2: mesag3-glide2 needs MESA_GLX_FX

2001-04-16 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:16:34PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > I never said that's not possible. I'm just saying this is not the way > *this* library works. Since I don't use this particular feature of > Mesa, I don't know why this is so. If you read README.3DFX you'll note > this

Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Seth Arnold
* Anthony Towns [010416 05:54]: > > Does that possibility satisfy everyone: > > - MUST and SHOULD change to the universally-recognised IETF meanings > > It's still not clear why this would be a Good Thing. > > The only real reason I've seen is that it's confusing people (and then, > it's not app

Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:38:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:49:14AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:16:24AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > I guess there are two conflicting desires here: > > > (1) The Acting Release Manager's desire to h

Bug#83977: PROPOSED] include Perl Policy

2001-04-16 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Final revision of the Perl policy. Full text at: http://people.debian.org/~bod/perl-policy/perl-policy.sgml This version incorporates the following major changes: * Indicate that the INSTALLDIRS option may be passed via the PERL_MM_OPT environment variable (Ben Gertzfield). * arch-in

Re: Bug#94114: mesag3-glide2: mesag3-glide2 needs MESA_GLX_FX

2001-04-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:08:27PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > There is no alternative to setting the environment variable MESA_GLX_FX. > > > > Yes. What do you suggest I do? If you read README.3DFX you'll see > > there's no reaso

Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:49:14AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:16:24AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I guess there are two conflicting desires here: > > (1) The Acting Release Manager's desire to have it clear what > > constitutes an RC bug. > > (2) Developers' de

Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:49:14AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Did the ftpadmins ever consider the possibility of running lintian on > packages before allowing them into unstable? I vaguely remember that > being discussed in the past. (speaking from my experience as ftpadmin in the past) They

Re: Policy reformatting

2001-04-16 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 10:45:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I have just started moving policy over to docbook 4.2, as > discussed a while back. As soon as I have made enough of a head > start, I'll check it into CVS under policy-new.sgml. No normative > changes to policy s

Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:16:24AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I guess there are two conflicting desires here: > > (1) The Acting Release Manager's desire to have it clear what > constitutes an RC bug. > > (2) Developers' desires to know what "must" be done in all cases and > what "ough