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

2003-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
Dan Jacobson wrote: > Anyway, here's a typical case. > $ apt-cache show flightgear > ... > Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator > Flight Gear is a free and highly sophisticated flight simulator. > . > This package contains the runtime binaries. This description sucks. Adding an url to it w

Bug#185943: debian-policy: request for virtual package: internet-server

2003-03-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 23, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >inetd-superserver, already planned by the *-inetd cospiracy effort. > >For the transition, I will make the next netbase package provide >inetd-superserver until /usr/sbin/update-inetd will be moved >somewhere else. Thinking again about it, I

Re: Bug#185943: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#185943: debian-policy: request for virtual package: internet-server)

2003-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:13:33 +0100, >> Martin Godisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 13:18:10 -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >> From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > If it will depend on inetd-superserv

Bug#185943: marked as done (debian-policy: request for virtual package: internet-server)

2003-03-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 23 Mar 2003 13:09:31 -0600 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#185943: debian-policy: request for virtual package: internet-server has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.

Bug#185943: debian-policy: request for virtual package: internet-server

2003-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 14:20:50 +0100, >> Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mar 23, Martin Godisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Will inetd-superserver provide both, the super-server and >> update-inetd? Or will inetd-superserver provide the super-server >> only, and I have to chec

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

2003-03-23 Thread Chris Waters
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 03:17:54PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What does dh_testroot solve in the clean target? Seriously. > > I've never understood why people put it in. > It gives a slightly more understandable error message, that's all. W

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2003-03-23 Thread
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CVS joy: formatting fixes; created another administrivia section with a list of links to external sub-policies and the developer's reference (and updated the remaining external references)

2003-03-23 Thread Debian Policy CVS
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: joy Sun Mar 23 10:38:29 MST 2003 Modified files: . : policy.sgml Log message: formatting fixes; created another administrivia section with a list of links to external sub-policies and the

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

2003-03-23 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:10:58PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Why? because they support building packages as root when > > dh_testroot can solve a lot of headache ? Ye gods! Removing dh_testroot does not break the build-as-root case! > What d

CVS joy: various formatting fixes

2003-03-23 Thread Debian Policy CVS
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: joy Sun Mar 23 09:51:40 MST 2003 Modified files: . : policy.sgml Log message: various formatting fixes

CVS joy: fixed the link to the authors section, closes: #185985

2003-03-23 Thread Debian Policy CVS
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: joy Sun Mar 23 08:55:08 MST 2003 Modified files: . : policy.sgml debian : changelog Log message: fixed the link to the authors section, closes: #185985

Bug#185943: Info received (was Bug#185943: debian-policy: request for virtual package: internet-server)

2003-03-23 Thread Christian Kurz
Sorry for my wrong response to this bug report. I'm not going to send any further followups to bug reports, except for ones that I either submitted or for packages that I'm responsibel for me. This was the last public answer to an bugreport that I haven't any relation to. Christian -- You must be

Bug#185985: policy.txt.gz: confusing title

2003-03-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:38:20PM +, Martin Dickopp wrote: > The document /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz is entitled in the > following way: > >Debian Policy Manual > > > Section 1.3, `A

Bug#185943: debian-policy: request for virtual package: internet-server

2003-03-23 Thread Christian Kurz
On [23/03/03 7:21], Martin Godisch wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.5.9.0 > Severity: wishlist > The noffle package requires inetd or similar, thus the current depends > line reads > Depends: [...], netkit-inetd | openbsd-inetd | rlinetd | xinetd | netbase (<< > 4.0) > I'd like to

Bug#185943: debian-policy: request for virtual package: internet-server

2003-03-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 23, Martin Godisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Will inetd-superserver provide both, the super-server and update-inetd? >Or will inetd-superserver provide the super-server only, and I have to >check for existence of an update-inetd program? What do I have to depend >on when my package ju

Bug#185943: debian-policy: request for virtual package: internet-server

2003-03-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 23, Martin Godisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >One more question, please: What package do you suggest as a non-virtual >alternative? Thanks! openbsd-inetd, because it's supposed to take the place of netkit-inetd (it's basically a traditional BSD-style inetd with a few extra features). --

Bug#185943: debian-policy: request for virtual package: internet-server

2003-03-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 23, Martin Godisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hence, I'm proposing a new virtual package name "internet-server" (or >something like that). inetd-superserver, already planned by the *-inetd cospiracy effort. For the transition, I will make the next netbase package provide inetd-superserv

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

2003-03-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:38:07AM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > > One thing, which I always find hard to find, is the rules about > > indentation/syntax of extended package descriptions. ... > Sorry, forget about this. I did not read carefully enough :-( Yes :) If you search for "description" in

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

2003-03-23 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ... uses dpkg-source ... Thus all source packages consist of > three files name.orig.tar.gz, name.diff.gz, > and name.dsc What about debian-native packages? I don't think this is true for them. -- Blars Blarson

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

2003-03-23 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, another suggestion: On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:30:08PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Notably, source packages and binary packages now have their own chapters, > and in these chapters there's stuff from both the old Debian archive chapter > and from the "packaging considerations" (a.k.a. misc

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

2003-03-23 Thread Jochen Voss
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:18:58AM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > One thing, which I always find hard to find, is the rules about > indentation/syntax of extended package descriptions. ... Sorry, forget about this. I did not read carefully enough :-( Jochen --

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

2003-03-23 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:30:08PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > I've shuffled many sections around within the policy manual chapters so that > there's less cruft and redundancy. One thing, which I always find hard to find, is the rules about indentation/syntax of extended package descriptio