On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:20:06AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:32:41PM +0100, Guenther Palfinger wrote:
> > page 81/sec. 11.7.5 User configuation files ("dotfiles"): "However, programs
> > that require dotfiles in order to operate sensibly (dotfiles that they do
> > not
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:49, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the late entry into the discussion. I am
> comfortable with making the changelog UTF-8 only, but file names in
> pure UTF-8 perhaps is premature. (मनोज्.conf, anyone?).
Please see my second proposal (the third in
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:32:41PM +0100, Guenther Palfinger wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.7.0
> Severity: minor
>
> page 81/sec. 11.7.5 User configuation files ("dotfiles"): "However, programs
> that require dotfiles in order to operate sensibly (dotfiles that they do not
> creat
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
> >> Debian developer reference 5.3.1 states that
> >> 2. Don't set architecture to a value other than ``all'' or ``any''
> >> unless you really mean it. In too many cases, maintainers don't
> >> follo
Hi,
Just because you are using a UTF-8 capable terminal does not
mean you can actually see a UTF encoded string. ሰው እንደቤቱ እንጅ እንደ
ጉረቤቱ አይተዳደርም።, though encoded in UTF, is hard for me to display. If
you are able to see this, would you please share what fontset you
are using?
>>"Steven" == Steven G Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steven> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
>> >It would be very helpful if this position were explicitly stated in Debian
>> >Policy, especially if people have been "fighting against this for years."
>>
>> Debian developer re
>>"Jochen" == Jochen Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jochen> * The foo-doc package should place the documentation into
Jochen> /usr/share/foo or into subdirectories of this.
Jochen> Rationale: Placing the documentation in /usr/share/foo makes
Jochen> the location consistent between
Hi,
Sorry for the late entry into the discussion. I am
comfortable with making the changelog UTF-8 only, but file names in
pure UTF-8 perhaps is premature. (मनोज्.conf, anyone?). Indeed,
until we have a wider deployment of a font that has a decent
coverage of UTF-8 glyphs (haw many of
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page 129/sec. D.2.12 Files: "In all cases the the part"
One "the" should be sufficient
Comment:
I've read the whole manual and for that 5 typos is a very small number. I
found this literature mostly entertaining.
Thanks
Guenther
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page 81/sec. 11.7.5 User configuation files ("dotfiles"): "However, programs
that require dotfiles in order to operate sensibly (dotfiles that they do not
create themselves automatically, that is) are a bad thing."
"that is" should be at the
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page 64/sec. 10.3.5 Example: "this way the system administrator can say
`/etc/init.d/bindreload' to reload the name server."
"bindreload" should be bind reload
Regards
Guenther
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page 74 & 75/sec. 11.2 Libraries: "All libraries must have a shared version
in the `lib*' package and a static version in the `lib*-dev' package. The
shared version must be compiled with `-fPIC', and the static version must not
be. In other
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page 121/sec. C.2.4 `debian/substvars' and variable substitutions: " The is
usually generated and modified dynamically by `debian/rules' targets; in this
case it must be removed by the `clean' target."
The what? is usually generated? Maybe m
Jochen Voss wrote:
[a lot of stuff that makes sense]
I second that.
Michael
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:40:06PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > > Also, there is the problem that some docs depend on their foo.deb, others
> > > don't.
> >
> > Since it's reasonable to expect that some people will just want to install a
> > -doc package to read the docs e.g. on a machine whe
Hello,
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:54:58PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> call it -doc, some call it -docs. Then, some place the documentation in
> -doc/, while others place it in foo/. Still others place it in -doc/, and
> then have a symlink from foo/.
This came up several times, but I never saw o
On 15-Jan-03, 08:58 (CST), Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:54:58PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> > Also, there is the problem that some docs depend on their foo.deb, others
> > don't.
>
> Since it's reasonable to expect that some people will just want to install a
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
> >It would be very helpful if this position were explicitly stated in Debian
> >Policy, especially if people have been "fighting against this for years."
>
> Debian developer reference 5.3.1 states that
>
> 2. Don't set architecture to a value ot
Steven G. Johnson wrote:
>It would be very helpful if this position were explicitly stated in Debian
>Policy, especially if people have been "fighting against this for years."
Debian developer reference 5.3.1 states that
2. Don't set architecture to a value other than ``all'' or ``any''
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:26:01AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> For a configuration file which is very deeply system related
> and sufficiently stable, it might be possible to satify the
> current policy on configuration files but I suspect there are
> many cases where an enhancement of an ups
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