Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-31 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:08:03AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:33:44AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:13:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > __Debian Standards Document__ > > > dpkg: > > >* version format > > >* maintainer scri

Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:06:55AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:08:03 +1000, > Anthony Towns wrote: > > Version number comparison is checked with 'dpkg --compare-versions', and > > the format is checked automatically by various tools. I've never found > > it necessary to look

Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-31 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:08:03 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Version number comparison is checked with 'dpkg --compare-versions', and > the format is checked automatically by various tools. I've never found > it necessary to look at the details of either except when I'm poking at > apt or dpkg's inte

Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:33:44AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:13:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > __Debian Standards Document__ > > dpkg: > >* version format > >* maintainer scripts are run when and under what circumstances Both of these are irrelevant

Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-31 Thread Julian Gilbey
I've just had what I think is a really useful idea On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:13:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > __Debian Standards Document__ This makes a lot of sense as a separate, technical, document, as you say. But I think that (at least a part of) the sections which I asterisk belo