Re: Resolving policy and practice wrt sbin directories (traceroute)

2001-06-28 Thread Rene Weber
Hello Steve, On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:20:55PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Will you *please* stop harping on this? A substantial percentage of us > think we *are* following the FHS w.r.t. sbin and traceroute. You don't > agree, that's fine, but please stop making this statement as if your

'typo' in policy

2001-06-28 Thread Frank Loeffler
Hi, it is not really a typo, under 6.6 it reads: When we configure a package (this happens with dpkg --install and dpkg --configure), we first update any conffiles and then call: ^ The marked 's' (in conffiles) is not in the and therefore appearing in n

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Greenland
On 27-Jun-01, 07:09 (CDT), Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Agreed. So should we close this bug report? > Yes, please. Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Resolving policy and practice wrt sbin directories (traceroute)

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Greenland
On 26-Jun-01, 23:02 (CDT), Rene Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do we really mean "must" for FHS compatibility if we are advocating > ignoring its directives for the sbin directories? Will you *please* stop harping on this? A substantial percentage of us think we *are* following the FHS w.r.t

Re: License and copyright in description

2001-06-28 Thread Edward Betts
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:10:27AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > # 2.3.3. The description of a package > > # --- > > # Copyright statements and > > # other administrivia should not be included either (that is what the > > # cop

Processed: Re: Bug#100631: Changing to ammendment

2001-06-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 100631 normal Bug#100631: [PROPOSAL] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc Severity set to `normal'. > retitle 100631 [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/d= Bug#100631: [PROPOSAL] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc

Bug#100631: Changing to ammendment

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Greenland
severity 100631 normal retitle 100631 [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc bye This proposal has two seconds and no ammendments. Since it has generated no controversy, I'm setting the discussion period of 10 days, which will end on 8 July 2001. Thanks, Steve -- Steve G

Re: License and copyright in description

2001-06-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:03:31PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:21:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > So at this point, are people doing this specifically to annoy me, or what? > Yes, it's all a conspiracy. Our desire to make everything consistent > and exactly rig

Re: License and copyright in description

2001-06-28 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:21:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > So at this point, are people doing this specifically to annoy me, or what? Yes, it's all a conspiracy. Our desire to make everything consistent and exactly right is not motivated by hackishness but by an evil plot against your sanit

Re: License and copyright in description

2001-06-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:10:27AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > # 2.3.3. The description of a package > # --- > # Copyright statements and > # other administrivia should not be included either (that is what the > # copyright file is for). > The descrip

License and copyright in description

2001-06-28 Thread Edward Betts
Section 2.3.3 of policy says copyright information should not appear in descriptions. # 2.3.3. The description of a package # --- # # Every Debian package must have an extended description stored in the # appropriate field of the control record. # #

Policy on debconf options

2001-06-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I'm not sure whether this should be a policy bit (probably not) or a developer's ref manual thing. And since I don't know how the docs have been reorganized or what the plan is, I don't want to say. So it's a proposal for whichever doc it most belongs in, but I think it belongs somewhere. I've