Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

2001-12-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:05:10PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > I thought there was general agreement that a proportional limit was > better than a simple number. Maybe this is how you feel, but I so far haven't seen general agreement on anything. Especially now that Anthony Towns has spo

Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

2001-12-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:14:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:51:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > [Debian Policy group: I am not sure if the Debian Policy Manual is an > > appropriate forum for any of the following material. I invite your > > opinions.] > > -p

Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

2001-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:51:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > [Debian Policy group: I am not sure if the Debian Policy Manual is an > appropriate forum for any of the following material. I invite your > opinions.] -policy is traditionally for technical policy, which the DFSG isn't. A -legal

Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

2001-12-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I thought there was general agreement that a proportional limit was better than a simple number. One disadvantage to a simple per-package limit is that you can defeat it by splitting something up into more packages. A proportional limit seems more sensible to me. Also, I think it should be a co

Re: [vhost-base] Draft policy proposal

2001-12-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Daniel Stone wrote: > Oh, and also bear one thing in mind: the virtual host name (e.g. "foobar" > in /var/vhosts/foobar) may not have any correlation to the hostname, > domain, or whatever. So, please don't assume it does. /var is the wrong place for this. There is a push to move FHS to

Bug#121977: bad link to the original version in the MIME policy and the menu policy

2001-12-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:36:14PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Where exactly are you finding this incorrect URL? > > Like I said in the initial submission, and like the subject says, in the > menu policy, and in the mime policy. Not the policy manual itself, but the > two sub-policies. Ah, gotc

Bug#121977: bad link to the original version in the MIME policy and the menu policy

2001-12-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:04:56PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > Where exactly are you finding this incorrect URL? > > > > Like I said in the initial submission, and like the subject says, in the > > menu policy, and in the mime policy. Not the policy manual itself, but the > > two sub-policie

REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

2001-12-01 Thread Branden Robinson
[Debian Policy group: I am not sure if the Debian Policy Manual is an appropriate forum for any of the following material. I invite your opinions.] [Debian GNU Emacsen maintainers: I'd appreciate your assistance in some fact-finding; see particularly the end of this mail.] Summary: Per recent d

Bug#121977: bad link to the original version in the MIME policy and the menu policy

2001-12-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:12:07PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > Actually, which version of policy were you looking at? This was fixed > > > in version 3.5.0.0, AFAICT. > > > > > > Closing this report. > > > > Uh, this is what I got from the the aforementioned FTP site :P I noticed > > this

Bug#121977: bad link to the original version in the MIME policy and the menu policy

2001-12-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:06:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:56:13PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > Note to self: > > > > > > > > Correct URLs are: > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/mime-policy.txt.gz > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.deb

Bug#121977: marked as done (bad link to the original version in the MIME policy and the menu policy)

2001-12-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#121977: bad link to the original version in the MIME policy and the menu policy

2001-12-01 Thread Josip Rodin
reopen 121977 thanks On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:56:13PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > Note to self: > > > > > > Correct URLs are: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/mime-policy.txt.gz > > > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/menu-policy.txt.gz

Bug#121977: bad link to the original version in the MIME policy and the menu policy

2001-12-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:48:50PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > > > Hi, > > > > These two links: > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/mime_policy.txt > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/menu-policy.txt > > > > They are in

Bug#121977: bad link to the original version in the MIME policy and the menu policy

2001-12-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:25:54PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Package: debian-policy > > Hi, > > These two links: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/mime_policy.txt > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/menu-policy.txt > > They are incorrect. Please fix them

Bug#121977: bad link to the original version in the MIME policy and the menu policy

2001-12-01 Thread Josip Rodin
Package: debian-policy Hi, These two links: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/mime_policy.txt ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/menu-policy.txt They are incorrect. Please fix them (the correction should be obvious :). TIA. -- 2. That which causes joy or h

Re: [vhost-base] Draft policy proposal

2001-12-01 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:52:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:40:43PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > "A unified system for virtual hosting system [sic] was needed ...". > > > It's not sufficient to just declare the need and use that as > > > the rationale. Please e