Re: draft proposal for a new web server policy

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:43:29AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > In the default configuration, web servers shall bind to localhost only > (okay, that's are more general policy issue affecting all network > services). um, that's a completely separate Policy proposal; i don't think it helps anyone

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:53:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > there are only two lines or original content in the message, one > asking which earlier mail (look into -policy archives), and the i have looked at the archive. none of the thread titles seem germane. could you give a hint whic

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > > > >>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Matthew> can you not use unprintably-encoded mime shite? it's hard to > > > read. > > > > > > shi

Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Reported by: Matthew Wilcox ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 212 days old. > > From the report itself: > > > All rpm-based systems support rpm --verify. Having > > debsums support optional makes debian an inferior > > dis

Bug#132767: debsum support should be mandatory

2002-02-07 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.0 Severity: normal All rpm-based systems support rpm --verify. Having debsums support optional makes debian an inferior distribution in this aspect. Making DEBIAN/md5sums required rather than optional would rectify this situation. -- Revolutions do not re

Bug#127809: reassigning

2002-01-05 Thread Matthew Wilcox
i'm reopening & reassigning this bug to Policy since if Policy and the tools disagree, one of them has to be fixed. If I'd uploaded a package using Enhances, it would be buggy. And having a packaging bug introduced by following Policy to the letter is not acceptable to me. -- Revolutions do no

Re: Why only one non-free section?

1998-09-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Sven > do you suggest the universities start selling debian cds to finance themself. I don't see why not. They have a captive market of near-penniless students who would be willing to buy the CDs from them. As long as they don't get greedy, there's no incentive for the students to bother doing