>>"Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Julian> - MUST and SHOULD change to the universally-recognised IETF meanings
Julian> - the distinction between RC and non-RC bugs is retained clearly
Julian> - it's clear what one ought to do to create a "good" Debian package
Julian>
Bah, I meant to file this in the bug report, and have the thread
directed there. Sorry for the noise.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#93724: base-files: please move undocumented(7) from manpages
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Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm sorry but I'm not willing to do this if the maintainer of the
>manpages package disagrees. Please convince him first. I think the
>policy group should be able to determine where the undocumented(7)
>manpage should go, hence the reassign.
OK ... I assum
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:35:46AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> aj, who'd rather relying on things that are objectively verifiable, rather
> than oracles like the policy editor or the release manager
The RFC usages of SHOULD and MUST have spread far beyond the RFCs,
they are popular among gro
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:08:24AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:34:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > It's only people on -policy that have to realise that MUSTs and SHOULDs
> > don't have the rfc meaning, though, afaics. Violating a MUST in an RFC
> No, it's the reade
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> reassign 80343 debian-policy
Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user
Bug reassigned from package `general' to `debian-policy'.
> thanks
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reassign 80343 debian-policy
thanks
"Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user", hence
policy.
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:37:04AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> 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:
>
> * arch-indep modules need to declare a minimum depe
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:34:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> It's only people on -policy that have to realise that MUSTs and SHOULDs
> don't have the rfc meaning, though, afaics. Violating a MUST in an RFC
No, it's the readers/users of Policy. And they are the ones who have
been getting confu
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