Re: Bug#54810: ought to depend on logrotate

(debian-policy CC-ed) On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Steve Haslam wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:10:41PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > > > mailman installs a file in /etc/logrotate.d but doesn't depend on > > > logrotate- which means the logs are silently not rot

Re: Bug#53054: pygresql: change version number to reflect correct upstream version

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: > [Forwarded to debian-policy for comments] > > "Juergen A. Erhard" wrote: > >Package: python-pygresql > >Version: 6.5.3-4 > >Severity: normal > > > >The upstream version of the pygresql package is 2.4, but the upstream > >version number on t

Re: webmin license

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, John Galt wrote: > > > The question is a real one: the webmin license is free for Linux > only. Thus webmin could conceivably be judged DFSG free for > Debian GNU/Linux and fall into non-free for all other ports. I tend to No way. It is not DFSG free, because it imposes r

copyright file problems

Hello, Since I started working on the ftp archive, I've found at least three packages in incoming which come with a licence like this: This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. This might be clear for the experienced linux user/a

Re: Uploaded alsadriver-unstable 0.5pre+cvs19991024+1855-1 (source all) to master

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Masato Taruishi wrote: > > At Mon, 25 Oct 1999 23:11:18 +0200 (MET DST), > Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > alsadriver-unstable (0.5pre+cvs19991024+1855-1) unstable; urgency=low > > > . > > >* new upstream rel

Re: Why -g flag?

> > The idea is to build the program with -g -O2, then install it in the > > debian/tmp tree and strip it. That gets you the following advantages: > > > >- The installed binary is stripped and fully optimized. > >- It's easy to get an unstripped binary: just run debian/build, > > no

Re: sources to both contrib & main packages

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Some sources produce both main & non-main packages. www-sql, for example, > produces www-mysql (used to be www-sql) for contrib (since mysql is > non-free); currently the www-sql source is in contrib too. Now www-sql > can be built for postgresql too, s

Re: Repackaging of xforms (now libforms) package(s?)

On 2 Jan 1998, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > A few quick questions: > > I've repackaged the package formerly known as xforms0.86 (it's now > libforms) with the upstream libc6 version of the binaries. (There's no > source available.) > > But there's also a newer libforms, 0.88, available. I'm just wond