Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-06-09 Thread Chris Waters
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:46:10PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Seconded. Thanks > It would be nice if there were a footnote to the first sentence listing > the D-P sections that conflicted... Yes, I suppose it might be. But I'm too lazy to write one right now, and I'd rather not stretch th

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-09 Thread Herbert Xu
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.5.4.0 > Severity: wishlist > In section 11.2, it is mandated that every library provides a static > and a shared version. I don't think this is appropriate, as there > are programming languages whose shared library s

Processed: Proposal accepted

2001-06-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > forwarded 72335 debian-policy@lists.debian.org Bug#72335: [PROPOSAL] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules Noted your statement that Bug has been forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > retitle 72335 [ACCEPTED 10/6/2001] Optional build

Processed: Reassign back to lintian

2001-06-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 42399 lintian Bug#42399: [SEE 66023] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently Bug#65345: lintian treats all .so files as shared libraries Bug reassigned from package `debian-policy' to `lintian'. > reassign 65345 lintian Bug#65345: linti

Bug#42399: Reassign back to lintian

2001-06-09 Thread Julian Gilbey
reassign 42399 lintian reassign 65345 lintian merge 42399 65345 thanks Now that policy has fixed the shared library issue, lintian can consider doing the same. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Que

Bug#100346: [PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-09 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.4.0 Severity: wishlist In section 11.2, it is mandated that every library provides a static and a shared version. I don't think this is appropriate, as there are programming languages whose shared library support is still evolving. The whole discussion in thi

Bug#100202: marked as done (debian-policy: Not all documents are registered with doc-base)

2001-06-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 9 Jun 2001 23:41:00 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#100202: debian-policy: Not all documents are registered with doc-base has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.

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

2001-06-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 98291 normal Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us Severity set to `normal'. > retitle 98291 [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing

Bug#99324: Lots of UTF-8 pointers...

2001-06-09 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:39:44PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/20/1431230&mode=thread -- Why > Unicode Won't Work on the Internet http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/0132203 -- Why Unicode Will Work On The Internet [In essence: unicode

Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-06-09 Thread Chris Waters
severity 98291 normal retitle 98291 [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy thanks With seconds from Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, this is now a formal amendment. Since this proposal has already been discussed quite a bit, no packages are affected,

Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-09 Thread Raul Miller
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > TELL ME HOW IN THE HELL I CAN WRITE A MAIL WITH WORDS FROM > > HUNGARIAN, SLOVAK, RUSSIAN AN JAPANESE TOGETHER > > > > Unicode was not panacea, but it solved most of the problems, > > although setting it up was not painless. On Sat, J

Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-06-09 Thread Steve Greenland
On 09-Jun-01, 11:53 (CDT), Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- debian-policy.sgml~ Mon May 21 10:45:51 2001 > +++ debian-policy.sgmlThu Jun 7 11:59:58 2001 > @@ -3983,8 +3983,9 @@ > > > The location of all installed files and directories must > -

Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-06-09 Thread Arthur Korn
Seconded Chris Waters schrieb: > --- debian-policy.sgml~ Mon May 21 10:45:51 2001 > +++ debian-policy.sgmlThu Jun 7 11:59:58 2001 > @@ -3983,8 +3983,9 @@ > > > The location of all installed files and directories must > - comply with the Linux File syste

Bug#98291: being truthful about the FHS and us

2001-06-09 Thread Chris Waters
Ok, here, as promised, is the final draft. I've let this idle for a bit while I was doing other things, so here's a quick recap for those who missed or forgot the original discussion. Policy says you must follow the FHS, period, and then goes on to say you must do things (the /usr/doc symlink, fo

Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > TELL ME HOW IN THE HELL I CAN WRITE A MAIL WITH WORDS FROM > HUNGARIAN, SLOVAK, RUSSIAN AN JAPANESE TOGETHER > > Unicode was not panacea, but it solved most of the problems, > although setting it up was not painless. This has nothing t

Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > well... it seems to be a stateful (sp?) encoding scheme... > while this is OKish for text documents and mail messages, > it is definitely not suitable for file names and similar That statement is not quite correct. It is not unsuitable for

Re: Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-09 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Marco d'Itri schrieb: > >Granted, unicode might not be ready for Japanese. > >But, should we wait until it is ready? > Yes. I have no desire to suffer because you consider more elegant > switching everything to unicode right now. As Radovan wrote in this thread some time back: > > I would no

Bug#100202: debian-policy: Not all documents are registered with doc-base

2001-06-09 Thread Steve Dodd
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.4.0 Severity: wishlist Not all the documents in the package are registered with doc-base, e.g.: menu-policy policy-process fhs -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: Linux lilith 2.2.19 #2 Sat May 19 15:35:09 BST 2001 i686 unknown Versions

Re: [PROPOSAL]: encourage use of utf-8 in documentation and clarify encoding issues

2001-06-09 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello Radovan, Thursday, June 07, 2001, 5:58:31 PM, you wrote: > submitted to BTS but since master is down, I am posting a copy to > debian-policy as well > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.5.5.0 > Severity: wishlist > Following proposed ad

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-09 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
[Sorry for hijacking an unrelated reply] >*Addition to 13.5 Preferred documentation formats: > >HTML documents, if in encoding other than us-ascii, must >have in their header an appropriate META tag describing the used encoding. Shouldn't that be "iso-8859-1 (latin1)" instead of