Bug#294351: Please extend 9.4's ellipsis style requirement tocover maintainer scripts and dpkg

2005-02-14 Thread Christian Perrier
> Having looked into this a little more, I now think that simple > misunderstanding may be why this turned into a major debate. The > original wishlist said something like, "please have dpkg follow > policy." Of course, what Thomas meant was, "please copy the style > mentioned in policy for some

Bug#294351: Please extend 9.4's ellipsis style requirement tocover maintainer scripts and dpkg

2005-02-14 Thread Chris Waters
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:15:34PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Chris Waters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I could say I want guidance from policy on what color of shirt I wear > > to my next LUG meeting. That doesn't mean it's a matter for policy. > Well, I'm not sure that irony is the

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 02:21:08AM +0100, Bluefuture wrote: > Hi Manoj/Debian-policy mailing list, > I'm the developer of dehs information system [1] that i had also > integrated with some useful info in the developer qa information > system[2]. > As you can see from here[3] 6250 not native source

Re: Bug#294351: Please extend 9.4's ellipsis style requirement tocover maintainer scripts and dpkg

2005-02-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:30:24 +0100, Adam Heath wrote: > Does policy enforce output styles elsewhere? Section 9.4, which is what this discussion was originally about, describes how initscript output should look. > Does anything parse the output of these commands? That, I don't know. I would h

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:19:25PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Bluefuture wrote: > > > 3. submit with a wishlist (tag patch) bug to BTS. > > > > These things shouldn't be filed as bugs, when there are so many. Make a

Bug#294351: Please extend 9.4's ellipsis style requirement tocover maintainer scripts and dpkg

2005-02-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Chris Waters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:20:19AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > No shenanigans here. The dpkg maintainer says that he wants guidance > > from policy. > > I could say I want guidance from policy on what color of shirt I wear > to my next LUG me

Bug#294351: Please extend 9.4's ellipsis style requirement tocover maintainer scripts and dpkg

2005-02-14 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, wrote: > I have no intention of using policy to "beat anyone on the head". > To repeat, the dpkg maintainer _asked_ for policy guidance. That is > why he reassigned #254998 to debian-policy. You reassigned it back > to dpkg on the grounds that there was no "bug" in policy.

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Bluefuture wrote: > > 3. submit with a wishlist (tag patch) bug to BTS. > > These things shouldn't be filed as bugs, when there are so many. Make a It is not an one-go mass-bug filling, since he has to review every watch file anyway.

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-14 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Bluefuture wrote: > 3. submit with a wishlist (tag patch) bug to BTS. These things shouldn't be filed as bugs, when there are so many. Make a status page, discuss on -devel, and when the number of packages gets smaller, then maybe you can file a mass-bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#294351: Please extend 9.4's ellipsis style requirement tocover maintainer scripts and dpkg

2005-02-14 Thread Chris Waters
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:20:19AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No shenanigans here. The dpkg maintainer says that he wants guidance > from policy. I could say I want guidance from policy on what color of shirt I wear to my next LUG meeting. That doesn't mean it's a matter for policy. > H

Bug#294351: Please extend 9.4's ellipsis style requirement tocover maintainer scripts and dpkg

2005-02-14 Thread jdthood
> Fuck no. You are the one who resorted to bureaucratic > shennaigans to convince dpkg maintainers to change the way it works, > rather than trying and convince them that your way is right. No shenanigans here. The dpkg maintainer says that he wants guidance from policy. He wrote: Ac

Bug#291026: which now in /bin/

2005-02-14 Thread jdthood
I wrote: > One case where /usr/bin/which won't work is in initscripts that > run prior to /etc/rcS.d/S45mountnfs.sh. This problem is solved by debianutils version 2.12.0, uploaded yesterday, which moves which from /usr/bin/ to /bin/. See #295058. :) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email