Bug#190753: Bug #190753 (frown on programs in PATH with language extentions)

2005-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Shields wrote: > What ever happened with this proposal you made in April 2003? Is it > waiting on something? Good question. I don't know why this accepted policy amendment with no dissenters and three seconds hasn't been included in any of the three releases of the policy manual made si

Re: Procedure to add sub-policies

2005-07-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Manoj Srivastava [Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:10:26 -0500]: > When the policy is deemed to be sufficiently mature, and when > most packages in question are following it anyway, the new sub-policy > can be submitted for inclusion into the main policy as a normal > proposal (and usually these s

Re: GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-27 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello I do not really see a problem here. All gnustep packages store files in a (at least sort of) FHS compliant directory: /usr/lib/GNUstep It is not very different from perl, python, emacs, java (and more) packages that have a "filesystem" of it's own and managed there. Java have its in /usr/sh

GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-27 Thread Eric Heintzmann
Hi, I already send this message to the debian-release mailing list, but Steve Langasek suggested me to send it to debian policy. Actually, there are in Debian (sarge, etch, sid) more than 50 packages that are parts of the GNUstep Environment. But there is a big issue with all of them: none are FH

Re: Procedure to add sub-policies

2005-07-27 Thread Frank Küster
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj)> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:44:28 +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Hi, is there an established procedure on adding sub-policies (like >> the existing menu or mime sub-policies)? Should they live in one of >> the involved pack