Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brendan" == Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brendan> See Bug#160054. I forgot to back-whack some hyphens in the debsums Brendan> manpage and groff helpfully translated them to a unicode glyph. Yes. But there are other reasons when mails get quoted printable. Like when the

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> Er, manoj, it'd help if you mailed the bts bug# when you Adam> responded to bugs. You then don't need to mail -policy at all, Adam> as the bts will forward all mails sent to a bug to the Adam> maintainer(which -policy is, in this case).

Re: [RFC] *-rc.d -> rc.d-* transition

2002-09-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:58:31AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > The second > reason is also about consistency: during the transition, there will be > some packages using update-rc.d and some using rc.d-update, which may > confuse people studying our packages. Not strong reasons, but reasons > none

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robbe> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> shite? Fix your own darned MUA. > > Robbe> Is Unicode manadatory now? (You somewhat incorrecly used > Robbe> U+20

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:53:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> there are only two lines or original content in the message, one >> asking which earlier mail (look into -policy archives), and the Matthew> i have looked at

Re: [RFC] *-rc.d -> rc.d-* transition

2002-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I am not sure. Maybe Joey Hess, or one of the others kept some. Nope. Does anyone have a debconf transcript? What happened to those video tapes? I wanted to review some of the discussion during my debconf talk too. I dislike the rc.d anywhere in the name on ge

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:53:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > there are only two lines or original content in the message, one > asking which earlier mail (look into -policy archives), and the i have looked at the archive. none of the thread titles seem germane. could you give a hint whic

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matthew> i don't know what mailing list manoj is so arrogantly > Matthew> assuming i read, but i'm clearly not subscribed. > > You filed a bug against debian policy. Debian policy is

Re: Reviewing policy bugs

2002-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > == > * #114920: [PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistency in perl module names >Package: debian-policy; Reported by: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 334 >days old. > > There was a long

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> i don't know what mailing list manoj is so arrogantly Matthew> assuming i read, but i'm clearly not subscribed. You filed a bug against debian policy. Debian policy issues are dealy with on the debian-policy mai

Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > i don't know what mailing list manoj is so arrogantly assuming i read, > but i'm clearly not subscribed. did he respond to the other point i made? -policy.

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Matthew> can you not use unprintably-encoded mime shite? it's hard to read. >> >> shite? Fix your own darned MUA. (Actually,

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
i don't know what mailing list manoj is so arrogantly assuming i read, but i'm clearly not subscribed. did he respond to the other point i made? On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:30:57PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Adam Heath wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > >>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Matthew> can you not use unprintably-encoded mime shite? it's hard to > > read. > > > > shite? Fix your own darned MUA. (Actually, the

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robbe> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> shite? Fix your own darned MUA. Robbe> Is Unicode manadatory now? (You somewhat incorrecly used Robbe> U+2010, hyphen, in that mail.) Mandatory? mandated by whom? As the

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matthew> can you not use unprintably-encoded mime shite? it's hard to read. > > shite? Fix your own darned MUA. (Actually, the breakage maybe > in debbugs, since I see my original m

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > shite? Fix your own darned MUA. Is Unicode manadatory now? (You somewhat incorrecly used U+2010, hyphen, in that mail.) -- Robbe signature.ng Description: PGP signature

Re: [RFC] *-rc.d -> rc.d-* transition

2002-09-08 Thread Chris Waters
First, I'd like to say that I'm fairly neutral in this debate. None of my packages will be affected either way, and I have no strong feelings about the namespaces involved. Nevertheless, I think there is one argument against the proposal which has been completely overlooked: update-rc.d is consis

Bug#159114: marked as done (debian-policy: non-us server is located in a country where it's possible to patent algorithms)

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 08 Sep 2002 13:05:51 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#159114: acknowledged by developer(Patents can't cover software in .nl after all) has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the proble

Re: Bug#159114: acknowledged by developer (Patents can't cover software in .nl after all)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adrian> There remains the issue that _many_ Debian mirrors do mirror Adrian> non-US which means that the same issue might affect one or Adrian> more of them. Adrian> Please make a separate "patented" and don't misuse non-US for Adrian> th

Re: [RFC] *-rc.d -> rc.d-* transition

2002-09-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 Sep 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As it was talked in Debconf2, we would be better off if we renamed all > >*-rc.d utilities (invoke-rc.d, policy-rc.d, update-rc.d) to rc.d-* > >(rc.d-inv

Processed: Re: Bug#159114 acknowledged by developer (Patents can't cover software in .nl after all)

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reopen 159114 Bug#159114: debian-policy: non-us server is located in a country where it's possible to patent algorithms Bug reopened, originator not changed. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tra

Bug#159114: acknowledged by developer (Patents can't cover software in .nl after all)

2002-09-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
reopen 159114 thanks On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >... > Hi, > > The relevant law, according to: > http://www.ivir.nl/wetten/nl/row1995.html > -- > 2. The following are not regarded inventions in

Bug#159114: marked as done (debian-policy: non-us server is located in a country where it's possible to patent algorithms)

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: Managing reports.

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 115438 [PENDING]: addition of new menu tag for kde menu removal Bug#115438: [PROPOSAL] addition of new menu tag for kde menu removal Changed Bug title. > severity 115438 wishlist Bug#115438: [PENDING]: addition of new menu tag for kde menu remo

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> can you not use unprintably-encoded mime shite? it's hard to read. shite? Fix your own darned MUA. (Actually, the breakage maybe in debbugs, since I see my original message to -policy just fine, but the message retrans

Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:48:06AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Perusuant to my message earlier, there are the first set of > pending bug reports. what message earlier? > * #132767: debsum support should be mandatory >Package: debian-policy; Reported by: Matth

Bug#132767: marked as done (debsum support should be mandatory)

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#119821: marked as done ([PROPOSAL] Postscript files requirements)

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Reviewing policy bugs

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Perusuant to my message earlier, there are the first set of pending bug reports. == * #114920: [PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistency in perl module names Package: debian-policy; Reported by: Joey Hess <[EMA