Bug#212034: Debian Perl Policy manual uses "dependency" backwards

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Daniel B. said: > Chris Waters wrote: > > I am dependent on coffee, therefore coffee is a dependency of mine. > > Not that I can swear that I've never heard the usage you claim, but do > you have a definition from a (professional) dictionary that documents > that usa

Bug#106073: status of this bug?

2003-09-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:45:23PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I've read the bug report and I'm interested to know if this bug is > being considered by the policy people or not. I've also read a bit of > the debian-policy archives but it seems that the issue hasn't been > resolved. We had

Bug#106073: status of this bug?

2003-09-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:49:01PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > We had another discussion on where to put the contents of -doc packages > separate from the bug report in which a degree of consensus was reached, > but I can't seem to find it now. I'll keep searching... Thanks, I'm interested. Anywa

Bug#212153: debian-policy: Outdated link for MIME subpolicy

2003-09-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:23:03PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.6.1.0 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > diff -r -u debian-policy-3.6.1.0.orig/mime-policy.sgml > debian-policy-3.6.1.0/mime-policy.sgml > --- debian-policy-3.6.1.0.orig/mime-policy.sgml

Bug#106073: status of this bug?

2003-09-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Hi all, I've read the bug report and I'm interested to know if this bug is being considered by the policy people or not. I've also read a bit of the debian-policy archives but it seems that the issue hasn't been resolved. TIA. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni

Bug#212034: Debian Perl Policy manual uses "dependency" backwards

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel B.
Chris Waters wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:57:16PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > > Since the other package is not dependent on perl, then by your own > > dictionary's definition, the other package is not a dependency of > > perl. (Any divergence between us yet?) > > This is your point of