Hello Jonathan,
On Wed, Nov 08 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I understand and agree, but that doesn't mean that packages should
> invoke editor using an absolute path.
>
> Policy describes package behavior, not user behavior.
Right. In this case, though, it describes package behaviour meant to
Hello Ian,
On Wed, Nov 08 2017, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#880920: Document Rules-Requires-Root
>field"):
>> I wonder if we should just make Policy the new home of the spec that
>> Niels and Guillem have already written?
>
> I certainly would rather not block incorporation of
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:31:09PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sean Whitton wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 06 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> >>Thus, every program that launches an editor or pager must use
> >>the EDITOR or PAGER environment variable to determine the editor
> >>o
Hi,
Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Thus, every program that launches an editor or pager must use
>> the EDITOR or PAGER environment variable to determine the editor
>> or pager the user wishes to use. If these variables are not set,
>> the
Daniel Pocock writes:
> In the section on log files[1], the example uses start-stop-daemon:
> postrotate
> start-stop-daemon -K -p /var/run/foo.pid -s HUP -x /usr/sbin/foo -q
> endscript
> while elsewhere in the policy manual it is suggested to use invoke-rc.d
> Inspecting my own system, I
Ian Jackson writes:
> Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#880920: Document Rules-Requires-Root field"):
>> I wonder if we should just make Policy the new home of the spec that
>> Niels and Guillem have already written?
> I certainly would rather not block incorporation of this new spec into
> Debian's off
On Wed, 08 Nov 2017 at 13:50:31 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Imagine the following scenario:
>
> - a package distributes an init script that runs the process with a PID file
>
> - later on, the package maintainer starts distributing a systemd unit
> file as well, running the process in foregroun
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#880920: Document Rules-Requires-Root field"):
> I wonder if we should just make Policy the new home of the spec that
> Niels and Guillem have already written?
I certainly would rather not block incorporation of this new spec into
Debian's official document set, on the tas
Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.1.1.1
In the section on log files[1], the example uses start-stop-daemon:
postrotate
start-stop-daemon -K -p /var/run/foo.pid -s HUP -x /usr/sbin/foo -q
endscript
while elsewhere in the policy manual it is suggested to use invoke-rc.d
Inspecting my own syst
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