> "IJ" == Ian Jackson writes:
IJ> That doesn't seem to be an answer to Sean's question. Why do you want
IJ> the question of redundant dependencies dealt with in policy ? What
IJ> bad things are happening, or might be likely to happen, because it is
IJ> not mentioned ?
Because I want to know
OK, I get it. So just like saying
Depends: x, x
or
Depends: x
Depends: x
twice is so ridiculous that it doesn't need to be explicitly mentioned as bad.
BA> As I see it, it is not a bug, but a quality of implementation issue
BA> that could be flagged by lintian, but does not need to appear in policy.
BA> Most of the time it will be an oversight or caused by a change in
BA> external dependencies, so it is worthwhile to notify the maintainer,
BA> bu
SW> Could you explain why you think this is needed, please? What problems
SW> could be caused by a package being listed in more than one field, and
SW> what problems could be caused by forbidding that?
Please have your policy say if it is OK to drive on the right side of
the road or the left side
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On
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps
please add an explicit statement:
A package listed in Depends must not also be listed in Suggests or
Recommends.
Or
A package listed in Depends may also be listed in Suggests
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Severity: wishlist
User browses
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html
User sees
7.2 Binary Dependencies - Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Enhances, Pre-Depends
User would like to make a URL that directly links to that section.
In fact
https://www.
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/mime-policy.html/index.html
One notices doing
$ firefox file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/mime-policy.html/index.html
Then keep on clicking on the link called "next".
After about 50 clicks, one realizes th
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Many programs in /usr/bin have GNU's _old_ address hardwired in:
$ cd /usr/bin
$ fgrep --files-with-matches '59 Temple Place' *|wc -l
179
$ fgrep --files-with-matches Temple *|wc -l
187
And that's just on my machine.
$ fgrep --files-with-matches Mass *|wc
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Version: 3.6.2.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
$ dlocate /copy|sed s/.*://|xargs grep -l Temple|wc -l
shows at least 216 packages still say Temple Place in their copyright
snippet, no matter how short. Even though GNU now lives on Franklin St.
I Didn't check /COPY... nor p
B> 5.1. Time Stamps
Oh, so there it was. Perhaps I was looking for "timestamps".
In section 12,
installed at the discretion of the package maintainer. Text
documentation should be installed in the directory
`/usr/share/doc/', where is the name of the
Perhaps add "and don't forget
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Version: 3.6.2.1
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Many /usr/share/doc/*/* file maintainers don't
cp --preserve=timestamps (cp -p) their updates. Thus upon ls -l,
README.blorg looks like it was updated yesterday, when in fact it
hasn't changed since 2002, upstream or downstream.
I recall
Package: wwwoffle
Version: 2.8e-3
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/init.d/wwwoffle
I wish
# /etc/init.d/some_package restart
would be mandatory to act just like
# /etc/init.d/some_package stop
# /etc/init.d/some_package start
I can't find the exact wording in
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.
B> Debian doesn't enforce a policy on the multi-user run-levels (2-5), this
B> is the decision of the local administrator.
OK, it wouldn't hurt to mention that fact then in the policy document,
just to make things clear. Or maybe it would hurt. I don't know.
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Version: 3.6.2.1
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One wants to know the exact definition of each of the Debian run levels.
We see
9.3. System run levels and `init.d' scripts
9.3.1. Introduction
The `/etc/init.d' directory contains the scripts executed by `init' at
boot time
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Version: 3.6.1.0
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Debian should no longer be like some mere arcade kiddie game machine,
where if you don't like the games staring when you deposit your coin,
then sorry.
> So many packages, so few that I need started at every boot.
>
> So I file wishlist b
A> I just don't agree. IMHO most of the jobs (including exim4) are not
A> executed in background for a reason: Once /etc/ppp/ip-up/ has
A> finished you can be confident that all the important stuff (fetching
A> mail, sending mail, polling news) has been done and that the line can
A> be safely disco
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Version: 3.5.10.0
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>From a newbie taking a 5 minute glance at the Debian Policy Manual,
I'd say remove all the "(from old Packaging Manual)" notations --
decide what is current policy, and leave history for another file.
> "T" == Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
T> Well, it's not exactly frivolous. If we were designing
T> the system from scratch we would probably have the initscripts
T> return a non-zero status on failure to perform the requested
T> action. Programs calling the initscripts could then
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Version: 3.5.8.0
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I don't think you are going to fix it at this late date, but next time
please try to follow Unix traditions about $? and emitting error
messages upon failure.
10.3.2. Writing the scripts
---
These scrip
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in the policy manual
10.3.2 Writing the scripts
These scripts should be named /etc/init.d/package,
and they should accept one argument, saying what to do:
start start the service, The start, stop, rest
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If there is a checklist for quality, then maybe say that programs that
output HTML etc. should output valid HTML etc.
E.g. one installs a program that makes a photo gallery of images, into
a web page. But this page doesn't pass the HTML v
>>>>> "C" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
C> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:45:52AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Anyway, here's a typical case.
>> $ apt-cache show flightgear
>> ...
>> Description: Flight Gear Flight Sim
Anyway, here's a typical case.
$ apt-cache show flightgear
...
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Flight Gear is a free and highly sophisticated flight simulator.
.
This package contains the runtime binaries.
OK, 40 MB download and install later we learn via some readmes that
one should
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Consider a user thumbing thru aptitude or apt-cache show.
He sees a brief description of a package that sounds good.
But he wants to know a little more before committing to a multi
megabyte download and install.
Therefore those packages w
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i was told to send this
From: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iptables: wasteful blanks added to syslog lines
To: Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:18:11AM +0800, Dan Ja
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