Re: draft proposal for a new web server policy

2003-12-07 Thread Roland Mas
n data. > > These URLs should also work for any virtual hosts on the Debian > system, unless the administrator has chosen to not include the > Debian content on a virtual host. I'd really like the possibility of having one application have its own vhost that it may manage for itself. Roland. -- Roland Mas prw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 1 1970 This-is-not-a-pipe|

Re: Original sources, or not

2003-09-18 Thread Roland Mas
h that one needs to remove them for the source package to be acceptable in Debian (main). > As far as i know, the problem is that our packaging tools cant handle > the common tar.bz2 format, or having seperate patches. Not only. Roland. -- Roland Mas Bonjour, je suis un virus de signature. Propagez-moi dans la vôtre !

Re: Bug#208011: [PROPOSAL] UTF-8 encoding for debian/control

2003-09-02 Thread Roland Mas
f-8, that looks... awkward. -- Roland Mas Qu'est-ce qui est jaune, qui pèse deux cents kilos et qui chante ? Un sumotori qui a bu trop de saké.

Bug#194972: [PROPOSAL] add Apps/Educational to menu subpolicy

2003-05-28 Thread Roland Mas
word processors > > + Educational > + > + educational and training programs > + > Emulators > > wine, dosemu, etc. > > I'm looking for seconds for this proposal. I hereby s

Bug#194974: [PROPOSAL] add Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy

2003-05-28 Thread Roland Mas
nuity and logic > > + Simulation > + > + real world simulations, like flight simulators > + > Sports > > games derived from "real world" sports I hereby second this proposal.

Re: What is the best way to insert data in a database?

2003-05-15 Thread Roland Mas
didn't get any interesting answers, maybe you didn't ask the appropriate people. In this case, I'd suggest debian-mentors rather than debian-policy. Maybe even debian-devel. Roland. -- Roland Mas Why did the elephant cross the road? Because it was the chicken's day off.

Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user

2003-01-14 Thread Roland Mas
osal, but I won't second it as is. Going directly from a "may" to a "must" is too quick in my opinion. Please make that a "should" first. It'll still allow you to file bugs (although not serious ones), and it'll have a better chance of being accepted.

Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded

2003-01-03 Thread Roland Mas
ne and we know how many changelogs need to be fixed, >> but I think in the long run it ought to be mandatory. > > Ok, fair enough. Here's a patch which makes it a "should". Given > my sample with lintian though, I don't think we'll have too many > package

Bug#69311: PROPOSAL] Symlinks in /usr/doc not mandatory anymore.

2002-07-22 Thread Roland Mas
; - > - > - > - > > Preferred documentation formats > > > This way, by removing the requirement that packages must maintain > symlinks in /usr/doc, we are in fact allowing new packages not to > fiddle with symlinks anymore. > > I'm looking for seconds for this proposal, which is *just* to stop > requiring symlinks. Re-seconded. -- Roland Mas How does an octopus go into battle? Fully-armed. pgpe3gbrkLpo1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /usr/doc

2002-07-22 Thread Roland Mas
Santiago Vila (2002-07-22 12:02:56 +0200) : [...] > I'm looking for seconds for this proposal, which is *just* to stop > requiring symlinks. Seconded. Roland. -- Roland Mas ar c t e l l ièu ai ia mi. -- Signatures à collectionner, série n°1,

Re: /usr/doc

2002-07-20 Thread Roland Mas
Joey Hess (2002-07-20 12:56:10 -0400) : > So would anyone murder me if the code in debhelper to make postinst > scripts manage /usr/doc links just went missing? I wouldn't. And this is a second. Roland. -- Roland Mas Un clavier azerty en vaut deux. pgpTKbZSRcLyw.pgp Descr

Bug#137172: removing Dan Quinlan's addr from policy

2002-03-14 Thread Roland Mas
There's only one second. > We either need a second second (as it were), or we need some policy > editor to decide that a change of this nature doesn't require seconds > (a more reasonable approach IMO), and just to fix it. I hereby second this proposal. Roland. -- Roland Mas A

Re: Bug#111281: base-files: MPL should be included in package

2001-09-05 Thread Roland Mas
Tille, Andreas (2001-09-05 14:16:43 +0200) : > I wonder why > > /usr/share/doc/mozilla-browser/MPL-1.1.txt.gz > > is not in this list, was it removed from sid? non-us? Roland. -- Roland Mas If you spit in the air, it lands in your face. -- Tevye, in Fiddler on the roof

Re: Software Licenced Under a Specific Version of GPL

2001-08-30 Thread Roland Mas
undation. `---- Roland. -- Roland Mas [...] Des fois, y'a des trous. -- (Ptiluc) -- Signatures à collectionner, série n°2, partie 3/3.

Seconded (was: Where to place web-accessible images)

2001-08-29 Thread Roland Mas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hereby second this proposal. Sourceforge needs Mailman, and Mailman needs these images. Neither Sourceforge not Mailman should have to be aware of all the available HTTP servers and change their configuration files. Roland. - -- Roland Mas

Re: Distribution comparison project

2001-07-06 Thread Roland Mas
re than I have until now. I'm afraid I cannot GPG-sign this message (laptop, see signature), but if need be I can repost it in a few days when back home. Roland. -- Roland Mas Currently in Bordeaux for the Debian Conference One and the second Libre Software Meeting.

Re: [PROPOSAL]: encourage use of utf-8 in documentation and clarify encoding issues

2001-06-07 Thread Roland Mas
Radovan Garabik (2001-06-07 16:58:31 +0200) : > submitted to BTS but since master is down, I am posting a copy to > debian-policy as well With the exception of the already mentioned typo, I second this proposal. -- Roland Mas Using a big hammer without caution can cause big

Re: Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-01 Thread Roland Mas
Marco d'Itri (2001-06-01 14:00:34 +0200) : > On Jun 01, Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Excuse me? "With the possible exception of the CJK community"? What > >about people speaking (and writing/typing) Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, > >Russ

Re: Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-01 Thread Roland Mas
justified affirmation and a not more justified "deal with it". Thanks. Roland. -- Roland Mas C'est un type qui rentre dans un café. Plouf.

Re: Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-05-31 Thread Roland Mas
into each emacsen? Why merge? Just make all the emacsen packages depend on mule-ucs. Roland. -- Roland Mas In every life you got some trouble, when you worry you make it double. -- in Don't worry, be happy (Bobby McFerrin)

Re: [PROPOSAL] cron.* scripts should be quiet

2001-02-20 Thread Roland Mas
in ``this'' crontab. If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so [...] -- Paul Vixie, in "man 5 crontab" -- Roland Mas [...] Des fois, y'a des trous. -- (Ptiluc) -- Signatures à collectionner, série n°2, partie 3/3.