Bug#170019: debian-policy: Ambiguity in section 11.7.2 (Configuration files: Location)

2002-11-21 Thread era eriksson
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch I am not able to coherently interpret the following text: Any configuration files created or used by your package must reside in /etc. If there are several you should consider creating a subdirectory of /etc named af

Bug#139969: debian-policy: dubious shell programming advice re: set -e [patch included]

2002-03-26 Thread era eriksson
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: normal The sections which recommend the use of set -e are IMHO a bit off the mark. The recommendations imply that failing silently is a Good Thing and that not handling errors sensibly is okay in shell scripts. In summary, relying on set -e to tra

Bug#139820: debian-policy: Overlong lines in .ps version

2002-03-26 Thread era eriksson
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:49:34 -0600, Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm the current developer of the DebianDoc-SGML package. (Just to clarify: my only concern is that the PostScript copy of the Policy Manual is not 100% usable at the moment. I'm not laying the blame on any parti

Bug#139832: debian-policy: typos in policy.sgml [patch included]

2002-03-25 Thread era eriksson
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: normal I found a couple of spelling errors in policy.sgml. I'm attaching a patch below. Hope this helps, /* era */ Index: policy.sgml === RCS file: /cvs/debian-policy/debian-policy

Bug#139820: debian-policy: Overlong lines in .ps version

2002-03-25 Thread era eriksson
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: normal The PostScript version of the Debian Policy Manual has illegible text in some places. The debiandoc2latexps script is apparently set up to keep overlong lines together, rather than move the last token down to the next line. This results in p