Re: Consistent location of files in -doc packages.

1999-08-29 Thread James Mastros
't really think so, because in most cases, wouldn't this produce a monstrosity like /usr/doc//more? Would having /usr/doc//copyright and /usr/doc//-doc.copyright be acceptable? -=- James Mastros -- God is dead Flowers on his grave They're dead too -=- Sara Mastros

Re: Let's just convert debhelper and do NMUs

1999-08-04 Thread James Mastros
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 02:18:31PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:31:09AM -0400, James Mastros wrote: > > Con: There will be a period where some packages use usr/doc and some > > usr/share/doc, confusing users. > > Reply: It&#x

Re: Let's just convert debhelper and do NMUs

1999-08-04 Thread James Mastros
will have to depend on a base-files with a usr/share/doc/ directory. Reply: Is there one that dosn't? Any others? If so, please use the form Con:, or Pro:, and a Reply: to a posted Con or Pro... that should keep this from becoming more circular then it already is. -=- James Mastros -- We are at code S-I-G-H. Repeat, code sigh.

New (?) /usr/share/doc

1999-07-31 Thread James Mastros
s do the part in the postinst, and have dpkg depend on it. I think that covers it. Please, don't flame me too hard. -=- James Mastros -- Little candle-wiccan-bunny fire good. Huge burn-down-house, bring-Cabal-action fire bad.

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-03 Thread James Mastros
ow mu, and everybody knows mu is good for answering unanswerable questions. -=- James Mastros -- "They are never alone that are accompanied by a nobel thoughts." -=- Written on the US Library of Congress cat /dev/urandom|james --insane=yes > http://www.rtweb.net/theorb/ ICQ:

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-03 Thread James Mastros
e (upstream and just took maintainership, not packaged yet), I'm quite interested in this discussion. (Although it's somwhat moot, as the author of that server has no explicit licence with the server, and has dissapeared -- or at least his domain and thus the email I have for him are dead.)

Grades of stable-ness [was: GNOME --> potato: let's do it!]

1999-05-01 Thread James Mastros
esser stability? This obviously needs to be discused more. (For one thing, that dosn't handle conflicts-but-does-not-replace -- but I'm not certian that that is supportable.) Again, disclamer: I don't really know what I'm talking about. Not-a-developer, and fairly-new-t