Re: Thinking about Delegating Decisions about Policy

2019-07-27 Thread Margarita Manterola
Thanks a lot Guillem for this message. It's very timely as we just had a discussion around these issues during DebConf19 in Curitiba, and many of the problems that we identified and discussed matched what your were saying. I think the TC needs to keep working on these issues and figure out how w

Re: Thinking about Delegating Decisions about Policy

2019-07-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey Sam, Sorry it took us so long to get back to you on this. Sean and Ian already had quite some interesting discussion on this subject. And we also talked about this issue during our monthly meeting in June [1]. The rough consensus from our discussion is that the technical committee can al

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 10/25/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have replaced some uses of the word must when it was intended to be non-normative with alternate and equivalent wording, which makes it easier to grep for "must". This still needs to be done for should (which I often replace

Re: Bug#363486: dpkg: [update-alternatives] New categories for: WORD, EXCEL, MEDIA-PLAYER etc.

2006-06-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 6/12/06, Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any coordinated effort to standardize the name of the provided programs in /etc/alternatives? I don't think this concerns debian-policy at all. The use of alternatives is something that needs to be coordinated amont the maintainers of

Bug#372522: Patch attached

2006-06-10 Thread Margarita Manterola
tag 372522 +patch thanks This is a simple fix, but I took the time to search and couldn't find any other "double dot", so I decided to make a patch. -- Bezos, (o. Marga. (/)_ --- policy.sgml 2006-06-10 23:15:43.997173864 -0300 +++ policy-patched.sgml 2006-06-10 23:48:37.256557971 -0300

Bug#366466: Patch attached

2006-06-10 Thread Margarita Manterola
tag 366466 +patch thanks The first of the two bugs reported had already been fixed in the arch-repo. The other one, hadn't been fixed, so I made a tiny patch. Also, the margins of that paragraph were indented one extra space, so I fixed that as well. -- Bessos, Maggie. --- upgrading-check

Bug#372148: Bug confirmed

2006-06-10 Thread Margarita Manterola
tags 372148 +confirmed patch tnx I've been looking at this bug in the documentation, and what Justin says is completely true. I've found out that my diagrams also beared this bug (maybe because I made them while reading the docs, or maybe because policy was updated to reflect my diagrams :-\). I

Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

2006-06-08 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On 6/8/06, Kai Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006-06-08T17:49-0700 Chris Waters wrote: > Until dpkg supports it, there's little point in debating it on -policy. So that's how it works? First dpkg implements the feature, then we can think about making it policy? Actually, yes. That'