Re: consistent tftpboot directory location [RFC]

2008-06-09 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And it should : > > * Define /srv/tftp as the default tftp root directory. > BTW, you should probably open a bug against debian-policy for this so that > we can start tracking it. done

Bug#485559: Re: consistent tftpboot directory location [RFC]

2008-06-09 Thread Franklin PIAT
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist [Opening a bug, as suggested on [EMAIL PROTECTED] . sorry for spamming] Hello, As I were writing an email about the consistency of tftpboot directory, I fount a previous debian-policy thread[1] where it seemed that a consensus were already met. (If you

Re: Rejected: Bug#122817: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2008-06-09 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On 2008-06-09, Russ Allbery wrote: > "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 2008-06-06, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> This proposal asks for an /etc/profile.d, the contents of which would > >> be sourced by every shell and which could be used to set environment > >> variables fo

Re: consistent tftpboot directory location [RFC]

2008-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:38:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And it should : > > * Define /srv/tftp as the default tftp root directory. > I think encoding this directory into a package default violates the FHS > requirements for /srv, althou

Re: Re: consistent tftpboot directory location [RFC]

2008-06-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:52:54AM +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote: > Hello, > > As I were writing an email about the consistency of tftpboot directory, > I fount a previous debian-policy thread[1] where it seemed that a > consensus were already met. > (If you wonder why I'm interested with this, see

Re: consistent tftpboot directory location [RFC]

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And it should : > * Define /srv/tftp as the default tftp root directory. I think encoding this directory into a package default violates the FHS requirements for /srv, although I'm not sure. It's hard for me to tell where the line should be draw

Re: Re: consistent tftpboot directory location [RFC]

2008-06-09 Thread Franklin PIAT
Hello, As I were writing an email about the consistency of tftpboot directory, I fount a previous debian-policy thread[1] where it seemed that a consensus were already met. (If you wonder why I'm interested with this, see [2]) I've worked on the following policy snippet. As far as I am concerned

Re: RE : Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Feel free to volunteer for the task! Russ will gladly accept a patch for >> it I guess. We always welcome help. :-) > > I have just check the source of the debian policy and it will not be > easy... Indeed the sections (ex 4.1) in all html fi

RE : Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-09 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
> Feel free to volunteer for the task! Russ will gladly accept a patch for > it I guess. We always welcome help. :-) I have just check the source of the debian policy and it will not be easy... Indeed the sections (ex 4.1) in all html files generated from the docbook files are not numbered with .

Re: Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > > I agree that it would be nice, but currently we don't maintain such a list > > in HTML with links to Debian Policy sections and doing so is somewhat > > annoying right now. I'm not sure that I'm willing to commit to doing > > that, although I

RE : Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-09 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
> I agree that it would be nice, but currently we don't maintain such a list > in HTML with links to Debian Policy sections and doing so is somewhat > annoying right now. I'm not sure that I'm willing to commit to doing > that, although I certainly agree that it would be nice to have. > The links

Re: Rejected: Bug#122817: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2008-06-06, Russ Allbery wrote: >> This proposal asks for an /etc/profile.d, the contents of which would >> be sourced by every shell and which could be used to set environment >> variables for all users. > s/every shell/every bourne-t

Re: Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
picca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The interesting part of the htlm version would be the link to the debian > policy sections at the end of each task of the checklist. > > So it would be nice in the PTS to point to that checklist upgrade which > refer to the debian policy. I agree that it would

Re: Rejected: Bug#169600: Policy should mandate a place for init.d script to log errors to

2008-06-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: This proposal asks that Policy mandate a location to which init scripts must log verbose errors. The original proposal was made in 2002 and there was little subsequent discussion in 2003. This Policy proposal is also not currently widely implemented in the archive and hence

Re: Rejected: Bug#122817: Please provide profile.d hook in /etc/profile

2008-06-09 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On 2008-06-06, Russ Allbery wrote: > This proposal asks for an /etc/profile.d, the contents of which would be > sourced by every shell and which could be used to set environment > variables for all users. s/every shell/every bourne-type shell/ (and zsh when invoked in compatibility mode, but then

Re: Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-09 Thread picca
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:07:41 -0700 Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, 08 Jun 2008, picca frederic wrote: > > >> In the TODO "frame" of PTS you tell to the maintainer to upgrade > >> there package from policy version to version + n. In