Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-09-02 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joseph> Apache defaults to having /doc readable by only localhost, but Actually its still world-browsable, since thats easiest (and policy implies it). There are open bugs against this though. netgod i'm trying to convi

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-31 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> A hint: nobody ever claimed building packages that used Joey> /usr/share/doc would be a problem. In fact, as long ago as 2 Joey> years, people were confident debhelper would handle that part of Joey> the transition very easily. That's not the

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-31 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raul> I guess this means that you didn't read Raul> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9908/msg5.html? I read it, and I've waited over 20 days, but we're no closer to a solution. Folling the new Policy would at least

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-31 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> Joey Hess did chose not to implement this change yet as he Marcus> waited for a consensus on the discussion that started about Marcus> this topic. This rules out 70% of our packages, which are Marcus> based on debhelper (figure may

Re: Bug#42052: PROPOSAL] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail

1999-08-05 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Ian" == Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> What does dpkg do in the case of circular dependencies? It dies a horrible, violent death -- see Bugs 22999, 23611, 23906, 24626, 24690, 24923, 26084, 29901, 34136, 34174, 34287, 38155, 38288, 38378, 38381, 38393, 38754, 39204, 39275, 41611,

Re: Bug#42477: PROPOSED} delay the /usr/doc transition till after potato

1999-08-05 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /usr/doc whereever this document refers to + /usr/share/doc. Julian> Seconded. Wusses. :-) netgod Debianism [DEH-BEE-IN-ISIM] /n./ An open source (GPL'd) religion founded on the beliefs of the GNU-GPL

Re: An Empty `real' virtual package ?

1999-05-16 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dirk> So it was suggest to create an empty ogonkify package (which Dirk> would depend on a2ps) to give ogonkify more visibility. Dirk> Is this considered to be a good or a bad idea ? This seems to go against current practice -- AFAIK its on

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

1999-05-03 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Edward" == Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Edward> So IRC and AOL are free clients, non-free servers with no Edward> free alternatives, can we do the same with file formats? Bah, its ICQ thats non-free; IRC clients and servers were GPL from the start. netgod

Re: Are /cdrom and /floppy really forbidden by policy?

1999-04-12 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Santiago> For historical and convenience reasons, I'm in doubt about Santiago> removing them from base-files. Is it really a good idea? I'd say no, and recommend going the other way -- putting /cdrom and /floppy in the default fstab. :-)

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-26 Thread Johnie Ingram
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Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-26 Thread Johnie Ingram
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Re: Bug#32263: Unexpected use of /cgi-bin/

1999-01-22 Thread Johnie Ingram
reassign 32263 debian-policy thanks The change being requested in this Bug would break Apache conformance with Debian Policy 2.5.0.0 chapter 5 section 4 subsection 1. - PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C __ _Debian GNU Johnie Ingram

Bug#27906: PROPOSED] Binary-only NMU's

1998-10-15 Thread Johnie Ingram
yright for debian/rules, and could be a -policy topic in itself.) - PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C __ _Debian GNU Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mm mm / /(_)_ __ _

Re: /var/mail back to /var/spool/mail

1998-06-03 Thread Johnie Ingram
are doing an upgrade anyway. David> David> THIS ISN'T THAT HARD! And currently we are at odds with David> everyone that counts. We should not be requiring app vendors David> to do #ifdef LINUX any more than we have to. - PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A

Re: /var/mail back to /var/spool/mail

1998-05-30 Thread Johnie Ingram
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Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-27 Thread Johnie Ingram
t; related to a bug not yet fixed. I prefer the current usage of #(\d+) -- a bug that is referenced but not to be closed can bet called just \d+, or Bug \d+, and the script will ignore it just as "release" currently does. ~~~~~