Re: Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package

1999-06-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-May-99, 19:02 (CDT), Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Same question as emacs mini-policy. Whether it has the weight of > policy is not the same as whether it is included directly in the > policy document or not. What's the real benefit of having it be policy? It's just the way

Re: Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package

1999-06-01 Thread Brock Rozen
On Mon, 31 May 1999 at 13:34, Joey Hess wrote about "Re: Bug#38612:...": > Keep in mind what policy is for. Keep in mind the intended audience. It's > not just the members of this list, and we shouldn't clutter policy up with a > lot of baggage new maintainers need not read. A pointer is quite suf

Re: Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package

1999-06-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
> Brock Rozen wrote: > > Does this mean that the "proposal-submitting guidelines" will not become > > part of the policy itself? I think that should be done, as it makes them > > official and allow for them to be changed officially as policy would > > dictate (fine, it would dictate itself how it w

Re: Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package

1999-06-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
> On Mon, 31 May 1999 at 14:47, Santiago Vila wrote about "Bug#38612:...": > > > > Package: debian-policy > > > Version: 2.5.0.0 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > It would make a lot of sense if Manoj's proposal-submitting guidelines > > > were to be placed in the debian-policy package and ref

Re: Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package

1999-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
Brock Rozen wrote: > Does this mean that the "proposal-submitting guidelines" will not become > part of the policy itself? I think that should be done, as it makes them > official and allow for them to be changed officially as policy would > dictate (fine, it would dictate itself how it would chang

Re: Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package

1999-05-31 Thread Brock Rozen
On Mon, 31 May 1999 at 14:47, Santiago Vila wrote about "Bug#38612:...": > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 2.5.0.0 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > It would make a lot of sense if Manoj's proposal-submitting guidelines > > were to be placed in the debian-policy package and referred to by the

Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package

1999-05-31 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 12:29:46AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > It would make a lot of sense if Manoj's proposal-submitting guidelines > were to be placed in the debian-policy package and referred to by the > policy (section 1.3). I second this. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package

1999-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 2.5.0.0 > Severity: wishlist > > It would make a lot of sense if Manoj's proposal-submitting guidelines > were to be placed in the debian-policy package and referred to by the > policy (section 1.3). (And the guideline

Bug#38612: [PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package

1999-05-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
Package: debian-policy Version: 2.5.0.0 Severity: wishlist It would make a lot of sense if Manoj's proposal-submitting guidelines were to be placed in the debian-policy package and referred to by the policy (section 1.3). (And the guidelines should also be modified to include Manoj's recent posti