Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

2002-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:51:46AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > I don't know the point of "must" and "should", since it is > the release manager who decides which bug is RC. It's to prevent severity inflation. It is presumably a bad thing for non-catastrophic violations of policy to result in bug

Bug#167004: gnome-wm

2002-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:39:22PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:29:09PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > > I think the best choice is to increase the value to 30 or 40 if a > > window manager complies with the Window Manager Specification Project > > and keep only one a

Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

2002-10-30 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 03:37:27 -0800, Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:09:25AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Here's an updated version of Roland Rosenfeld's diff: > [...] > > + There must be a manual page at least for every program. If > This would make it an

Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

2002-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:02:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:09:25AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > + It is not very hard to write a man page. See the > + id="http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html"; > > + name="Man-Page-HOWTO">, m

Bug#167004: add ewmh-x-window-manager alternative, drop EWMH section from priority, add virtual package ewmh-x-window-manager

2002-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:41:44PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > It turns out that just bumping the priority of x-window-managers like > metacity which implement the EWMH spec isn't enough. Other window > managers like twm still take priority, mainly because they support the > Debian menu system d

Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

2002-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:09:25AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > + It is not very hard to write a man page. See the + id="http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html"; > + name="Man-Page-HOWTO">, man(7), the examples > + created by debmake or dh_make, or

Bug#167004: gnome-wm

2002-10-30 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:29:09PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christian, could you look over it? The policy maintainers indicated to > > me on IRC that they would only add it to policy after it had been > > integrated, so if you are in agreeme

Bug#167004: gnome-wm

2002-10-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:50:55AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:29, Christian Marillat wrote: > > > I disagree with that. Users already don't know how to setup the default > > x-window manager, and now you want to introduce an new > > update-alternative... > > Well, chan

Bug#167004: gnome-wm

2002-10-30 Thread Christian Marillat
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:29, Christian Marillat wrote: > I disagree with that. Users already don't know how to setup the default > x-window manager, and now you want to introduce an new > update-alternative... > Well, changing the alternatives is reall

Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

2002-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:56:35PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:09:25AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > + To avoid duplicate bug reports about missing manual pages, > > + you should inform the user that you know about the missing > > + manual page in > > + /u

Bug#167004: gnome-wm

2002-10-30 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:29, Christian Marillat wrote: > I disagree with that. Users already don't know how to setup the default > x-window manager, and now you want to introduce an new > update-alternative... Well, changing the alternatives is really only for advanced users. We should advise us

Bug#167004: gnome-wm

2002-10-30 Thread Christian Marillat
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 20:53, Colin Walters wrote: > I just made a full policy proposal. I think it should make everyone > happy. > http://bugs.debian.org/167004 > Christian, could you look over it? The policy maintainers indicated to > me on IRC t

Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

2002-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:09:25AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > + To avoid duplicate bug reports about missing manual pages, > + you should inform the user that you know about the missing > + manual page in > + /usr/share/doc/package/TODO.Debian. Why not just remove this o

Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

2002-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:37:27AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:09:25AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Here's an updated version of Roland Rosenfeld's diff: > [...] > > + There must be a manual page at least for every program. If > > This would make it an RC bug if

Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

2002-10-30 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:09:25AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Here's an updated version of Roland Rosenfeld's diff: [...] > + There must be a manual page at least for every program. If This would make it an RC bug if no man page exists. I don't think that's what we want. (I know it's n

Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

2002-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
tags 39830 - fixed retitle 39830 [AMENDMENT 30/10/2002] get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks thanks On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:54:08AM +0100, Martin Godisch wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 16:26:50 +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > > I proposed to change the "Manual pages" section of our policy to

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2002-10-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 39830 - fixed Bug#39830: [REJECTED] get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks Tags removed: fixed > retitle 39830 [AMENDMENT 30/10/2002] get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks Bug#39830: [REJECTED] get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks Changed Bug title. >