Re: What is the "system"

2002-02-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > ... You must not remove these packages or your system may become > totally broken and you may not even be able to use dpkg to put > things back" > > I'm rather confused (wrt the understanding of the policy)... The > two parts of this sentence do not deal necessary with the same > concept. BTW

What is the "system"

2002-02-22 Thread Georges Mariano
Hello, Starting reading the policy, there is something I feel confusing about the statement "proper funtioning of the system". Here is my point of view. As a Debian user since 4 years, I think that "the system" is [in fact] two folded : a > The GNU/Linux (sub)system b > The Debian (packaging) (su

Re: copyright file in .deb

2002-02-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Feb-2002 Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello, > > Policy 13.6 state that > > 13.6 Copyright information > > Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and > distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This > file > must neither be compre

copyright file in .deb

2002-02-22 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello, Policy 13.6 state that 13.6 Copyright information Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link. This leads to the impressio