Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient

2003-07-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:47:47 +0200, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > Lintian, however, complains if the sections .comment or .note are >> > present, which strip doesn't think are unneeded. >> >> Usually, when there is a discrepancy between lintian a

Bug#201182: Not exactly frivolous

2003-07-18 Thread Chris Waters
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:59:04AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > You are both missing the point. Init scripts are conffiles > (with reason). conffiles are not removed when a package is removed, > only upon purge. When I remove a package with an init script, I do > not want to be bombar

Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient

2003-07-18 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Lintian, however, complains if the sections .comment or .note are > > present, which strip doesn't think are unneeded. > > Usually, when there is a discrepancy between lintian and > policy, it is not policy that you change. > The question is which makes more

Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient

2003-07-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:09:05PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 19:24:12 +0200, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > Section 11.2 says > > > strip --strip-unneeded your-lib > > > Lintian, however, complains if the sections .comment or .note are > > pre

Processed: Re: Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient

2003-07-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 188731 wishlist Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient Severity set to `wishlist'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administra

Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient

2003-07-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
severity 188731 wishlist thanks Hi, On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 19:24:12 +0200, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Section 11.2 says > strip --strip-unneeded your-lib > Lintian, however, complains if the sections .comment or .note are > present, which strip doesn't think are unneeded.

Bug#201182: Not exactly frivolous

2003-07-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 16 Jul 2003 04:42:18 +0800, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> "T" == Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: T> Well, it's not exactly frivolous. If we were designing the system T> from scratch we would probably have the initscripts return a T> non-zero status on failure to perfor

Bug#201883: base-files: Please include Zope Public License in /usr/share/common-licenses

2003-07-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:31:51 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > reassign 201883 debian-policy thanks > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: >> Package: base-files Version: 3.0.2 Severity: minor >> >> I'd like ZPL (Zope Public License) to be added to t

Processed: [PROPOSAL] Policy should not list common licenses but say when a license is common

2003-07-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # BTS controlling commands. > severity 201883 wishlist Bug#201883: base-files: Please include Zope Public License in /usr/share/common-licenses Severity set to `wishlist'. > retitle 201883 [PROPOSAL] Policy should not list common licenses but say when

Bug#189422: reassigning to policy

2003-07-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:18:20AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > I see no point in including N bloody kilobytes of GFDL in the texinfo and > > info packages' copyright files when the copyright is very much accessible > > within the packages' info documentation, to which it only applies after all

[PROPOSAL] Policy should not list common licenses but say when a license is common

2003-07-18 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
# BTS controlling commands. severity 201883 wishlist retitle 201883 [PROPOSAL] Policy should not list common licenses but say when a license is common thanks Hi, from 13.6: Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic license, the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL should refer t

AW: Debian Vim Scripts Policy proposal

2003-07-18 Thread Riehm Stephen
Hi guys, firstly, I think it's great that you're tackling this sort of thing. If there's one thing I hate it's the way software get's installed - even today I know of no system that get's it just right (and I'm even using Mac OS X :-). That said, I have the feeling that you're jumping to the spec

Re: Bug#201883: base-files: Please include Zope Public License in /usr/share/common-licenses

2003-07-18 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:31:51PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Please read the base-files FAQ. It's the debian-policy group who > decides about adding a license to common-licenses, not me. Sorry, but i filed that bug from people.debian.org which is a woody and has no FAQ file. I'll modify this b

Processed: Re: Bug#201883: base-files: Please include Zope Public License in /usr/share/common-licenses

2003-07-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 201883 debian-policy Bug#201883: base-files: Please include Zope Public License in /usr/share/common-licenses Bug reassigned from package `base-files' to `debian-policy'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assis

Re: Bug#201883: base-files: Please include Zope Public License in /usr/share/common-licenses

2003-07-18 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 201883 debian-policy thanks On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 3.0.2 > Severity: minor > > I'd like ZPL (Zope Public License) to be added to the list of common > license in Debian. I think that ZPL is common enough (at least 10 > p

Debian Vim Scripts Policy proposal

2003-07-18 Thread Jakub Turski
Greetings. Together with Artur Czechowski, we've created a proposition of possible Debian Vim Scripts Policy. At the moment Debian introduces only vim-scripts and vim-latexsuite but we think that problems which have risen during assembly of vim-latexsuite should be addresed in a form of policy f