Re: Bug#97755: PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Should we not wait until we have a working system before we > write this down in stone? It seems likely that we shall have design > tweaks as we work through implementing this, and once the design and > the interfaces have stabilized would be the time to propose

Bug#97755: PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:18:17PM +0100, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > Since the task wouldn't actually be installed in any permanent sense > (there's no task package to install), upgrading a task would probably > just consist of selecting it again with tasksel. Well, it depends how/if you want

Processed: Re: Bug#97072: make amendment

2001-05-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 97072 [ACCEPTED 2001/05/18] correct policy's comments on > standards-version Bug#97072: [AMENDMENT 2001/05/11] correct policy's comments on standards-version Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Bug#97072: make amendment

2001-05-17 Thread Anthony Towns
retitle 97072 [ACCEPTED 2001/05/18] correct policy's comments on standards-version thanks On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:52:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > retitle 97072 [AMENDMENT 2001/05/11] correct policy's comments on > standards-version > This is correcting an error, so deadline for discussi

Re: Bug#97755: [PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Should we not wait until we have a working system before we write this down in stone? It seems likely that we shall have design tweaks as we work through implementing this, and once the design and the interfaces have stabilized would be the time to propose this as policy. This is

Bug#97755: PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
[Sorry if I'm talking nonsense here; I've only recently started reading debian-policy again, so I may be further out of touch than I think.] On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:46:48PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Rather than having task packages any more, individual packages that > > belong to a tas

Processed: 91252 accepted

2001-05-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 91252 [ACCEPTED 2001-05-17] enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy, > second try Bug#91252: [AMENDMENT 2001-05-06] enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy, second try Changed Bug title. > forwarded 91252 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug#91252: [ACCEPTED 2001-0

91252 accepted

2001-05-17 Thread Branden Robinson
retitle 91252 [ACCEPTED 2001-05-17] enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy, second try forwarded 91252 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks Amendment was accepted without discussion. -- G. Branden Robinson | You could wire up a dead rat to a DIMM Debian GNU/Linux| socket and th

Processed: [AMENDMENT 17/05/2001] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > close 97755 Bug#97755: [PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system Bug closed, send any further explanations to debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-policy@lists.debian.org > reopen 97755 Bug#97755: [PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new

Bug#97755 acknowledged by developer ([AMENDMENT 17/05/2001] eliminating task packages; new task system)

2001-05-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #97755: [PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system, which was filed against the debian-policy package. It has been marked as closed by one of the developers, namely Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You should be hearing from the

Bug#97755: [AMENDMENT 17/05/2001] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
close 97755 reopen 97755 severity 97755 normal retitle 97755 [AMENDMENT 17/05/2001] eliminating task packages; new task system thanks Having quickly received 3 seconds (by Anthony Towns, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh, and Bas Zoetekouw), this is now an amendment. -- see shy jo

Bug#97755: PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > --- policy.sgml.orig Tue May 15 21:57:25 2001 > +++ policy.sgml Tue May 15 22:14:28 2001 > @@ -1024,6 +1024,38 @@ > > > > + > + Tasks > + > + > + The Debian install process allows the user to choose from >

CVS jdg: * Finished chapter 11

2001-05-17 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: jdg Thu May 17 04:25:41 PDT 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml upgrading-checklist.html debian : changelog Log message: * Finished chapter 11 * Add a dpkg-statoverride des

Bug#97755: PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:43:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > After a lot of discussion, AJ and I have settled on a compromise that is > acceptable to both of us about what to do to fix Debian's broken[1] task > system. Dusk. A siren squealing in the distance, maybe police, maybe ambulance, it's

Re: Is it allowed to remove old changelog entries?

2001-05-17 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:30:50PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2001, Richard Braakman wrote: > >It also doesn't require more than the name and the date, and it doesn't > >forbid you from removing the notices for previous changes. So your > ^

Bug#97755: PROPOSAL] eliminating task packages; new task system

2001-05-17 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Joey! You wrote: > After a lot of discussion, AJ and I have settled on a compromise that is > acceptable to both of us about what to do to fix Debian's broken[1] task > system. Looks great to me. I second it. -- Kind regards, +