Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-05-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:12:30PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > As for (b), no, we're aiming for compatibility! Grrr! :-) No, I mean we're aiming to move all the docs to /usr/share/doc for woody anyway; so this issue is just about done with anyway. (Well, except that the existance of the symlink

Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-05-23 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:17:57PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > (The exceptions we allow are cases where (a) the FHS doesn't really say > anything useful, like where CVS repositories should go, and (b) /usr/doc, > which we're aiming for compliance with anyway. Are there more?) As for (a), the FH

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

2001-05-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 72335 normal Bug#72335: [PROPOSAL] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules Severity set to `normal'. > title 72335 [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets > for debian/rules Unknown command or m

Processed: accepted!

2001-05-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 66023 [ACCEPTED 22/05/2001] Treat plugins and shared libraries > differently Bug#66023: [AMENDMENT 06/05/2001] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently Changed Bug title. > forwarded 66023 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug#66023: [ACCEPTED 22/05/200

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

2001-05-23 Thread Julian Gilbey
severity 72335 normal title 72335 [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules thanks Once again, this proposal (in its amended form) has gained two seconds. I propose a 10 day discussion period. The question of how to handle the use of this is still a litt

Bug#72335: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:09:03AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > I should probably shut up about this, but something has always > > bugged me (which means I'm probably doing it wrong). > > > > Take for example /usr/share/doc/d

Bug#66023: accepted!

2001-05-23 Thread Josip Rodin
retitle 66023 [ACCEPTED 22/05/2001] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently forwarded 66023 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks More than two weeks have passed since the last messages about this, and we had a consensus about it. (I could write a new patch, if necessary, but I'd rather leave it to the

Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-05-23 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:17:57PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:03:57AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > How about: "must be compatible with and should comply with" the FHS. > > (Here I'm using RFC meanings of must and should; if this is a problem > > at the moment, try "

Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-05-23 Thread Thomas Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:09:03PM +1000, Edward C. Lang wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:57:19PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote: > > How about: > > > > The location of all installed files and directories must be compatible with > > the > > Linux Filesystem Heirarchy Standard (FHS), and should be c

Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-05-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:03:57AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > How about: "must be compatible with and should comply with" the FHS. > (Here I'm using RFC meanings of must and should; if this is a problem > at the moment, try "should be compatible with and ideally should > comply with"). Is there

Re: Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-05-23 Thread Edward C. Lang
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:57:19PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:59:11AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:03:57AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > > How about: "must be compatible with and should comply with" the FHS. > > [or] > > > "should be

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

2001-05-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:02:17PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > If you have the time to sit down and do the jobs you've just listed, > fantastic, please do it [...] Well, I already have my hands full with release trivia, but there are definitely some things I can do. My concern has been that the