Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:43:42AM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > Keep in mind that policy is intended to help us make a better system, > not to allow the filing of whimsical bug re

Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:12:12PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:06:05PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > My intelligence tells me that if "

Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:06:05PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > > 2.3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts says: > > "Prompting may be accomplished by hand, or by communicating with a > &

Bug#184521: 2.4.3 exaggeration of bad Makefile edits

2003-03-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor 2.4.3 says: "This makes it impossible for someone else to later reconfigure the package." This is an incorrect statement and is likely an intentional exaggeration. A statement like: "This could make it very difficult for someone else to later reconfigure the

Bug#184518: footnote 6

2003-03-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor Footnote 6 says: "4% of Debian packages [see Debconf stats] currently use debconf" Two minor bugs, but should I really bother submitting different bug reports? http://kitenet.net/programs/debconf/stats/ says: "Whups, you want to go here. " and points to htt

Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Package: debian-policy 2.3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts says: "Prompting may be accomplished by hand, or by communicating with a program, such as debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration management specification, version 2 or higher." The grammar is ambiguous and "by hand" is va

Bug#184368: sematic error, 2.3.1 The package name

2003-03-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:57:07PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > > > Section 2.3.1 says: > > "Package names must consist of lower case letters (a-z), digits (0-9), > > plu

Bug#184368: sematic error, 2.3.1 The package name

2003-03-11 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Package: debian-policy Section 2.3.1 says: "Package names must consist of lower case letters (a-z), digits (0-9), plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and periods (.)." It should say something like: "Package names must not consist of anything other than lower case letters (a-z), digits (0-9), plus (+) a