Re: no lintian warning on undocumented(7)

2000-02-22 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
ollow procedure to get your idea acted on: -> file a bug report against policy, *including an appropriate diff* -> Cc the report to this list... if you can get consensus, then get policy amended and file a report against lintian. I'll be one of your seconds if you do this. -- ..Aaron Va

Re: many packages still using /usr/doc

2000-01-08 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
dy know about it.... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org Others will look to you for stability, so hide when you bite your nails.

objection! [was Re: Icon and pixmap location]

1999-11-02 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
is raised one way or another on this subject, I will retract this objection. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org

Suggestion [was: Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate]

1999-10-10 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
rator could then make any changes he deemed useful to the default configuration. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org

Re: PLEASE, ENOUGH

1999-09-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
like to point something out. My original message was referring to the *original version* of *ben's* proposal, not the autobuilder gcc sit-in hack. In my mind the latter shouldn't even be considered. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin:

PLEASE, ENOUGH

1999-09-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
27;s ad-hoc beaurocratic process. Let's just push this one through, people! (Ben, you can consider this a second...) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.

Re: A configuration tool for debian

1999-09-05 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
good reason; I just can't see it ;) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.

Seconded.

1999-08-21 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Just to clarify for Joey, I seconded this proposal in my last message. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people in

Re: shlibs file changes proposal

1999-08-21 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
away with this confusion? If it's still needed, I second this proposal. Also, if I'm not mistaken, our social contract acgnowledges the existence of non-free software, even admits that it's necessary sometimes. Who are we to dictate what others use? Shouldn't we distribute that softw

Re: seconding /etc/init.d/script need not be a conffile if actively maintained

1999-06-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
here as well. I officially second this proposal. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people in this world: those wh

Re: System integrity...

1999-06-15 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
r md5sums should be required. A proposal was attempted I believe, but didn't make it. Please look back in the archives, don't open this pandora's box again unless it's necessary. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin:

Re: Bug#37345: PROPOSAL] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 09:40:01AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 11:27:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > > On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 02:10:27AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > PROPOSAL > > > > > > > > > (1

Re: Problem with dpkg-architecture

1999-05-05 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
does not recommend -e to be the default. > 1.c) dpkg-architecture defaults to set not only the arch env variables, but > also MAKEFLAGS += -e I second approach 1c. 1b sounds hackish, and 1a and 2 require too many changes. But this is something that needs to happen -- ..Aaron Van Cou

Re: Base packages

1999-04-24 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
is conversation? Only if you've got time to do it though. :) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org "...Nothing astonishes men so much as c

Re: Debian GNU [was: smarter way to differ architectures needed?]

1999-04-07 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
that. This is a good idea because: What if Hurd were suddenly forked, and some new OS appeared under a different microkernel? If this OS still bore the name Hurd, and the Hurd code was eventually merged to be source compatible with multiple MK's, *then* what would happen??? We just

Re: FHS again (Re: slink is gone, goals for potato?)

1999-03-06 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
y can be reverted and defaults can be set as you suggest. Everything that does not yet conform to this area of policy gets a bug. This is simply a basic tenet of wide-scale project management. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: ht

[OTP] Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?

1999-02-25 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
lementing (b) anyway > then. > > Maybe we can get an entry in the Guiness book of records for the archive > with the most symlinks? What kind of proposals have come forth to somewhat flatten the ftp archives? If none have I have a few ideas in mind... -- ..Aaron Van Cou

Re: Debian 'freeze' task force

1999-01-25 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 08:59:19PM +0100, Vincent Renardias wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > Le Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:29:38PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe écrivait: > > > If there were a group that, during freeze, were given the task of

Debian 'freeze' task force

1999-01-24 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
task of handling difficult looking bugs before they became stale, debian could possibly begin getting its releases out on time. I'm just curious, is there such an organization within debian at this time? -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] B