Re: Policy rewrite: chs 1 & 2

2001-02-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:59:20AM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:10:38AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > But surely there are lots of other such obsolete constructs and > > libraries; we really need a programmer's guide for such things rather > > than policy. > >

Re: Policy rewrite: chs 1 & 2

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:10:38AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > But surely there are lots of other such obsolete constructs and > libraries; we really need a programmer's guide for such things rather > than policy. > Manoj once volunteered to write a Debian programmer's guide :-) (This was whe

Re: Policy rewrite: chs 1 & 2

2001-02-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:06:18PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:19:36PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > 1.1 Comparison of must, should, may with bug severities: at present, > > may -> wishlist; should -> minor/normal/important; must -> serious Noted, thanks. > > 2.1

Re: Policy rewrite: chs 1 & 2

2001-02-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:19:36PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > 1.1 Comparison of must, should, may with bug severities: at present, > the text matches "important" with "must" or "required" and > "normal" with "should" or "recommended". But now the bug > severities have changed; t

Policy rewrite: chs 1 & 2

2001-02-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
Dear all, I just printed out a copy of the latest version of policy (3.5.1.0), and began to read through it. The first thing that struck me is that it is a work that has accumulated through a number of patches over a number of years, and is now quite a disorganised collection of ideas scattered s