Re: Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Well, part of the difficulty in classifying this material is > that one has to make the judement call on whether the things being > referred to are supposed to be standard API's that shall not be > lightly changed, and thus viable policy items, or they

Re: Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I am also ambivalent about sections like 4.1 "Syntax of >> control files". That section could be said to belong in policy, as >> dictating the standard format of control files, and any ch

Re: Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I am also ambivalent about sections like 4.1 "Syntax of > control files". That section could be said to belong in policy, as > dictating the standard format of control files, and any change may > affect every package there is, on the other hand, this is merely >

Re: Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Josip" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Josip> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:57:30PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> 6.3. Details of unpack phase of installation or upgrade >> 6.4. Details of configuration >> 6.5. Details of removal and/or configuration purging Josip> These secti

Re: Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:13:37PM -0400, Franklin Belew wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:57:30PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Can we add a section on shared objects that are merely plugins or components > of a larger program? > For example: xmms plugins, and mozilla xpcom objects XFr

Re: Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:57:30PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 6.3. Details of unpack phase of installation or upgrade > 6.4. Details of configuration > 6.5. Details of removal and/or configuration purging These sections surely have some technical details that the Policy doesn't need to conta

Re: Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Myth" == Franklin Belew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Myth> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:57:30PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> lots of neat stuff> Myth> Can we add a section on shared objects that are merely plugins Myth> or components of a larger program? For example: xmms plugins, Myth

Re: Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-29 Thread Franklin Belew
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:57:30PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Can we add a section on shared objects that are merely plugins or components of a larger program? For example: xmms plugins, and mozilla xpcom objects Frank aka Myth

Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I went through the packaging manual, and these are the parts I think belong in policy (I had the full text for these sections in this message, but I was afraid it would pass the max message size limit). I am also ambivalent about sections like 4.1 "Syntax of control files". That se