Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?

1999-02-14 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 12:50:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > That's cool. The license the DFSG, we can pinch the kernel and package it up > :-) Then port/rebuild all the tools, packaging BSD-specific ones where > needed. > > I installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 here. My main comments were: > * The setup

Re: pkgs that have installer scripts, and the pkgs that depend on them.

1998-07-05 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 11:47:55PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > I am packaging up Communicator/Navigator 4.05(full debs) for debian. Because > of the way I provide /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape, I have to conflict > netscape{3,4}. > > During an irc session, someone said that fortify wouldn't install with

Re: Uploading updated documentation package to frozen

1998-05-18 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 03:52:58PM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote: > However, I would like to amend the above. (BTW, is it a Policy? I > couldn't find the word "frozen" in the Policy Manual. ;-) IMHO, the above > rule should not be applied to pure documentation packages, including (but > not limited

Re: Removing /usr/lib/sendmail

1998-02-13 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 05:17:07PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > I think it would be better to discuss the new standard first. Note, that > the current policy only mentions that packages requiring an MTA have to > depend on the VP mail-transport-agent. > > So we need to define in the policy m

Re: md5sums files (was Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!))

1998-02-11 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 09:42:06AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Tommi> BTW, I hope lintian will check that all the suid files are > Tommi> registered with suidmanager.. > Say what? When did this become policy? Uh-oh.. it isn't. It's a personal preference. Not necessaril

Re: suidmanager

1998-02-11 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 12:51:09PM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > BTW, I hope lintian will check that all the suid files are > > registered with suidmanager.. > An issue then being that `suidmanager' must be one of the first > things to get installed. Should it then be part of the ba

Re: md5sums files (was Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!))

1998-02-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 12:40:17AM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > > Of course, a better solution would be something akin to > > suidmanager -- those packages that need it would use it, > > less important, non-critical, wouldn't. > Actually, thinking about it, since we have strict rules ab

Re: md5sums files (was Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!))

1998-02-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 04:10:29PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > > Note, that md5sums was only introduced by deb-make some time ago and never > > has been widely discussed. AFAIR, a better solution than md5sums files > > would be to store more information about the unpacked files, as setuid > > bits

Re: about unique maintainer address policy

1998-01-29 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 05:44:37PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > The reason behind requiring a single email of the form > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was multifold; one was the database; but the > other, and in my opinion, more important reason was so thet there is > an easy address format for