Re: DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)

1997-10-25 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [Please Cc all replies.] > On Oct 23, Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I suggest to change policy so that every Debian package has to use > >liblockdev to lock/unlock devices. > We should not force to modify all packages, not every mai

Re: DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)

1997-10-25 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 10:53:39PM +0200, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > 2. Serial devices > > This point was also adressed in Brian White's "Upcoming Debian Releases" > document > (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9709/msg00042.h

Re: DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)

1997-10-25 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> This point was also adressed in Brian White's "Upcoming Debian Releases" > document > (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9709/msg00042.html). > > Could you please explain how you see the relation between that > document and > the "POLICY WEEKLY" messages? Is Brian's document obsel

Re: DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)

1997-10-24 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Marco d'Itri wrote: > > [Please Cc all replies.] > On Oct 23, Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I suggest to change policy so that every Debian package has to use > >liblockdev to lock/unlock devices. > We should not force to modify all packages, not every maintainer is > a C pr

Re: DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)

1997-10-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
[Please Cc all replies.] On Oct 23, Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I suggest to change policy so that every Debian package has to use >liblockdev to lock/unlock devices. We should not force to modify all packages, not every maintainer is a C programmer who knows how to modify the

Re: DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)

1997-10-24 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 10:53:39PM +0200, Christian Schwarz wrote: > 2. Serial devices This point was also adressed in Brian White's "Upcoming Debian Releases" document (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9709/msg00042.html). Could you please explain how you see the relation b

DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)

1997-10-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997) The following message is a list of topics related to the Debian Policy which are currently under discussion or which will be discussed in the near future. This summary is sent to the debian-policy mailing list periodically by the Debian Policy Manager