Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: minor
10.1.3 The system-wide mail directory:
The system-wide mail directory is /var/mail. .
The use of the old location /var/spool/mail is deprecated
and:
12.6 Mail transport, delivery and user agents:
...
The mail spool is /var/spool/ma
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:56:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Raising the specter of versioned provides sure is a nice way to kill any
> forward progress at all, ain't it?
What do you think we have Herbert Xu around for?
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Herbert Xu wrote:
> I object. Until versioned provides work reliably, doing this prevents
> any use of versioned dependencies on such packages which may come back
> to haunt us.
If something needs to declare a versioned dependency, it need only use
the package's real name in the dependency. There
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Proposal:
> Replace section 3.2 of the perl sub-policy included with Debian policy
> with the following text:
>Packages which contain perl modules should provide virtual packages
>that correspond to the primary module or modules in the package. The
Package: debian-policy
Rationalle:
Perl policy currently dictates that a perl module package have a name of
the form lib-foo-bar-perl, where "foo-bar" maps to Foo:Bar in the perl
module name. This is resulting in a lot of very large and awkward
package names -- the worst ofender so far is the lon
On 5.X.2001 at 00:36 Panu Kalliokoski wrote:
>
> Should there perhaps be a policy about how modifiers keys are mapped in
> console and X applications? For example, on the console, alt produces
> an esc prefix, which is IMO good and makes alt equivalent to a meta
> key. However, under X, meta is us
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