Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Jérôme Marant wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Josip Rodin wrote: > >> Think harder. :) A user runs man x-window-manager once, sees something, > >> later the alternative gets changes to another WM for whatever reason, they > >> run man x-window-manager again, see another thing,

Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Jérôme Marant wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jerome Marant wrote: > >> I've sent a patch for Debhelper (See #85963) but it won't be applied > >> as long as Policy don't say so. > > > > When did I say that? I am still unhappy with the implementation in > > debhelper, is all. (

Re: Accessing CVS for the Debian Policy

2003-03-09 Thread Philippe Batailler
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : « On Mar 09, Claudio Cattazzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: « « >Do you think Italian translation of the Policy would be useful? « No, it's wasted time. Developers are supposed to know english anyway. « I think your time would be spent better at

Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Jérôme Marant
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josip Rodin wrote: >> Think harder. :) A user runs man x-window-manager once, sees something, >> later the alternative gets changes to another WM for whatever reason, they >> run man x-window-manager again, see another thing, confusion ensues. > > editor(1)

Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Jérôme Marant
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jerome Marant wrote: >> I've sent a patch for Debhelper (See #85963) but it won't be applied >> as long as Policy don't say so. > > When did I say that? I am still unhappy with the implementation in > debhelper, is all. (Modify policy to get rid of the /usr/

Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:18:36AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Think harder. :) A user runs man x-window-manager once, sees something, > > later the alternative gets changes to another WM for whatever reason, they > > run man x-window-manager again, see another thing, confusion ensues. > > editor(

Re: Accessing CVS for the Debian Policy

2003-03-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 09, Claudio Cattazzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do you think Italian translation of the Policy would be useful? No, it's wasted time. Developers are supposed to know english anyway. I think your time would be spent better at translating something useful to our users. -- ciao, Marco

Re: Versioned Symbols

2003-03-09 Thread Jakob Bohm
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:50:25PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > Hey all, > > Please excuse the (minor) cross-post but I think the technical > committee needs to find an answer and that answer then be set in > policy. > > We need to make a decision on how to properly handle multiple libra

Re: Accessing CVS for the Debian Policy

2003-03-09 Thread Claudio Cattazzo
Do you think Italian translation of the Policy would be useful? On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:43:19PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:33:03PM +0100, Claudio Cattazzo wrote: > > We're starting the Italian translation of the Debian Policy and we'd like > > to upload the files to

Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: > Think harder. :) A user runs man x-window-manager once, sees something, > later the alternative gets changes to another WM for whatever reason, they > run man x-window-manager again, see another thing, confusion ensues. editor(1) and pager(1) and www-browser(1) are already pro

Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 02:53:10PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> Currently, some window managers like IceWM or Sawfish, provide an > >> alternative to x-window-manager.1. It would be consistent to add this > >> to the policy since window managers provide an alternative to > >> x-window-manager a

Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Jerome Marant wrote: > I've sent a patch for Debhelper (See #85963) but it won't be applied > as long as Policy don't say so. When did I say that? I am still unhappy with the implementation in debhelper, is all. (Modify policy to get rid of the /usr/X11R6/man/ tree, and I would be able to implemen

Re: Versioned Symbols

2003-03-09 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 04:16:47PM -0500, Sam Hartman Anthony> wrote: >> I think that we should implement versioned symbols. Anthony> Uhh, versioned symbols means that programs built on Anthony> Debian systems won't run elsewh

Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Jérôme Marant
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:38:46PM +0100, Jerome Marant wrote: >> Currently, some window managers like IceWM or Sawfish, provide an >> alternative to x-window-manager.1. It would be consistent to add this >> to the policy since window managers provide an a

Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:38:46PM +0100, Jerome Marant wrote: > Currently, some window managers like IceWM or Sawfish, provide an > alternative to x-window-manager.1. It would be consistent to add this > to the policy since window managers provide an alternative to > x-window-manager as well. Sin

Bug#184064: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Every window manager should provide an alternative to the x-window-manager.1 manpage

2003-03-09 Thread Jerome Marant
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.8.0 Severity: normal Currently, policy says: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 12.8.4 Packages providing a window manager Packages that provide a window manager should declare in their control data that they provide the virtual package x-window-manager. They should also regist

Re: Versioned Symbols

2003-03-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 04:16:47PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > I think that we should implement versioned symbols. Uhh, versioned symbols means that programs built on Debian systems won't run elsewhere. That's not something we should be doing, except in very specific cases where the gain outweig