Re: Draft policy 3.1.0.0 now available

1999-10-28 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Joseph Carter writes: JC> 1999 at 10:56:45PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: >> > * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849) >> >> I don't think we have a consensus on this one, though as the >> proiposer, I'll be happy if no one agrees. :-) JC> I don't agree with you. => I'd say

Re: Draft policy 3.1.0.0 now available

1999-10-28 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:56:45PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849) > > I don't think we have a consensus on this one, though as the proiposer, I'll > be happy if no one agrees. :-) I don't agree with you. => I'd say it's got a nice consensus.

Re: Draft policy 3.1.0.0 now available

1999-10-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
> On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:56:45PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > in C or C++. The required packages are called _build-essential_, and an > > informational list will be published separately from this document. > > > > I don't see that list. > > I've been thinking about publishing this li

Build-essential (was: Re: Draft policy 3.1.0.0 now available)

1999-10-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
> I note that the new policy says: > > It will not be necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships > on a minimal set of packages that are always needed to compile, link > and put in a Debian package a standard "Hello World!" program written > in C or C++. The requi

Re: Draft policy 3.1.0.0 now available

1999-10-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
> Julian Gilbey wrote: > > * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849) To quote the latest message in the bug report, from Joey: Ok, to sum up, I have 2 seconds, and the only concern anyone's had is if these files will ever appear at all. I have found one occurrance of binary ex

Re: Draft policy 3.1.0.0 now available

1999-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:56:45PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > in C or C++. The required packages are called _build-essential_, and an > > informational list will be published separately from this document. > > > > I don't see that li

Re: Draft policy 3.1.0.0 now available

1999-10-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:56:45PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > in C or C++. The required packages are called _build-essential_, and an > informational list will be published separately from this document. > > I don't see that list. I've been thinking about publishing this list as a task m

Re: Draft policy 3.1.0.0 now available

1999-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Julian Gilbey wrote: > * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849) I don't think we have a consensus on this one, though as the proiposer, I'll be happy if no one agrees. :-) I note that the new policy says: It will not be necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships

Draft policy 3.1.0.0 now available

1999-10-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
A draft version of the policy package which I intend to upload as 3.1.0.0 soon is now available: http://www.debian.org/~jdg/debian-policy_3.1.0pre1.tar.gz http://www.debian.org/~jdg/debian-policy_3.1.0pre1_all.deb http://www.debian.org/~jdg/packaging-manual_3.1.0pre1_all.deb The changelo