Bug#185364: debian-policy: project url's should be required for each apt-cache package description

2003-03-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.8.0 Severity: wishlist Consider a user thumbing thru aptitude or apt-cache show. He sees a brief description of a package that sounds good. But he wants to know a little more before committing to a multi megabyte download and install. Therefore those packages w

Re: Bug#178251: slang: don't do a dh_testroot in clean

2003-03-18 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:14:13AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > By the same measure, the dh_testroot in the binary rule would serve no > purpose either, you'd find out it went wrong soon enough. Indeed, and that's what I think. However, some people like to put dh_testroot there, and it does no har

Re: Bug#178251: slang: don't do a dh_testroot in clean

2003-03-18 Thread Chris Waters
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:32:58PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > If the consensus is that having clean not require root (except > in those two cases mentioned in policy) is a good thing [...] I think things are fine the way they are, I think what you're suggesting would be a lot of work, I s