On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 04:18:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Charles Plessy wrote:
> > As proposed in 2010 (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#98), I would like to ask
> > the
> > Technical Comittee to reconsider our Policy, and restrict it to cases where
> > the
> > name of a program is an interface
Hi,
The discussion surrounding why aptitude is priority 'important' [1] is
very enlightening. Thanks to all contributors.
With respect to the priority of libboost-iostreams, the consensus
seems to be to raise it.
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:18:52AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote:
> [ ... ] on ba
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 11:23:35PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:59:06PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> >> The motivation is to put an end to the contrafactual interpretation of this
> >> clause in Polic
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:59:06PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 11:49:03AM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > Agreed. The license for using and distributing the files in the
> > BINARY package is useful and necessary. But I can't imagine that man
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:16:29AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> There is an additional factor here. Reportedly, the ftpmasters have a
> policy that all Debian packages must have all copyright notices for the
> package duplicated in the package's ???copyright??? file.
Agreed, the ftpmasters have a l
Hi,
I'd have to agree with Jonathan Nieder and Charles Plessy that the
proposed change does not reflect current consensus.
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:50:25AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder writes:
> >> --- a/policy.sgml
> >> +++ b/policy.sgml
> >> @@ -570,7 +570,7 @@
> >>
> >>
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:18:24PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Debian-Policy: I suggested that the Perl license be added to
> > common-licenses. Santiago Vila, the base-files maintainer, pointed
> >
Vila wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>
> > Package: base-files
> > Version: 4.0.2
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > CPAN ships an enormous number of perl modules, many of which
> > have a license similar to the fol
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 06:50:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> The most recent proposed patch [1] in this bug removes the rationale
> about ldconfig seeing dpkg's temporary files if you call it at the wrong
> point in the maintainer scripts. I'd like to suggest that this rationale
> should be reta
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:16:27PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:55:56PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > postrm
> > --
> >
> > An installed shared lib has been removed from the system just before
> > "postrm remov
Hello,
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:48:04AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #111025: [AMENDMENT 2001-09-10] correcting ldconfig policy in Chapter 9,
> which was filed against the debian-policy package.
>
> It has been marked a
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:21:36PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:53:20PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:52:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > Would there be a problem with enshrining this with the follo
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:52:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > --- policy.sgml.origSun Sep 2 22:50:21 2001
> > +++ policy.sgml Sun Sep 2 22:52:26 2001
> > @@ -3718,7 +3718,7 @@
> >
> >
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
In chapter 9, the last two paragraphs of the first section discuss
when to call "ldconfig" for packages that install shared libs.
The penultimate paragraph mentions POSTinst and POSTrm.
The last paragraph then mentions PREinst, b
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:44:32PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 04:04:11PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > This suggests that one ought to increase the version in the shlibs file
> > each time the ABI is changed, but not change it otherwise.
> >
>
Hello,
I was looking again at the details of which pre- and post- scripts are
called when and with what arguments. I am worrying about this because
I am working on a patch for lintian.
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:41:28PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> I was re-reading the first section
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