Bug#375728: various spelling mistakes

2006-06-27 Thread Nico Golde
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, I checked the policy for spelling mistakes and made the use of 'behavior' and 'debianised' consistent. Patch is attached. Kind regards Nico -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 26 Jun 2006, Ian Jackson wrote: > Frank Küster writes ("Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how > sub-policies should be managed"): >> For a document called "Debian-Foo-Policy" to be part of The Debian >> Policy it must be included in 1.4. If it is not included there, it >> is not manda

Re: Including more licenses in 12.5

2006-06-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 20 Jun 2006, Frank Küster verbalised: > Indeed. If we take "space savings" as the main argument to include > a license in common-licenses, then the GFDL should be in there. On > the other hand, if we connect a statement to the inclusion, like > "this is a license that Debian likes", we should

Policy changing procedures (was: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed)

2006-06-27 Thread Frank Küster
Manoj, can you please comment on that? Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Danchev writes ("Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how > sub-policies should be managed"): >> If there is no `official policy process' then what justifies the presence of >> policy-process.sgml and /usr

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
George Danchev writes ("Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed"): > If there is no `official policy process' then what justifies the presence of > policy-process.sgml and /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy-process.* > respectively ? I assume this is an overs

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-27 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 13:46, Frank Küster wrote: --cut-- > > Why do you think "are all normative and authoritative", is not correct, > > if sub-policies are part of debian-policy or referenced to by the above > > mentioned 1.4 debian-policy paragraph ? > > Sorry, I misparsed this sentence, or rat

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2006-06-27 Thread tomek
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Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-27 Thread Frank Küster
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 12:19, Frank Küster wrote: >> George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The sub-policy documents either can be part of this debian-policy >> > document or referenced to by this paragraph. They are maintained by their >> > aut

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-27 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 12:19, Frank Küster wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The sub-policy documents either can be part of this debian-policy > > document or referenced to by this paragraph. They are maintained by their > > authors and are all normative and authoritative. > >

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-27 Thread Frank Küster
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sub-policy documents either can be part of this debian-policy document or > referenced to by this paragraph. They are maintained by their authors and are > all normative and authoritative. I don't think the last part, " are all normative and autho

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-27 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 10:10, George Danchev wrote: > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 01:43, Chris Waters wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:05:17PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > > What you tend to disagree with ? I'm asking for clarification how > > > sub-policies must be handled, and this must be

Re: Bug#370471: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-06-27 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:42:06AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > Or better yet, instead of duplicating such code in each and every > > daemon, as already done for fork/exec, detach from terminal, cleanup > > filedescriptors, setsid(), write

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-27 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 01:43, Chris Waters wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:05:17PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > What you tend to disagree with ? I'm asking for clarification how > > sub-policies must be handled, and this must be stipulated by the > > debian-policy. > > Why must it be stipu