On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:08:03AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:33:44AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:13:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > __Debian Standards Document__
> > > dpkg:
> > >* version format
> > >* maintainer scri
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:06:55AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:08:03 +1000,
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Version number comparison is checked with 'dpkg --compare-versions', and
> > the format is checked automatically by various tools. I've never found
> > it necessary to look
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:08:03 +1000,
Anthony Towns wrote:
> Version number comparison is checked with 'dpkg --compare-versions', and
> the format is checked automatically by various tools. I've never found
> it necessary to look at the details of either except when I'm poking at
> apt or dpkg's inte
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:33:44AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:13:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > __Debian Standards Document__
> > dpkg:
> >* version format
> >* maintainer scripts are run when and under what circumstances
Both of these are irrelevant
I've just had what I think is a really useful idea
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:13:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> __Debian Standards Document__
This makes a lot of sense as a separate, technical, document, as you
say. But I think that (at least a part of) the sections which I
asterisk belo
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:44:38AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > __Debian Standards Document__
> > dpkg:
> Most of the dpkg setup is so intricately connected with the packaging
> process, that separating out some of this seems somewhat weird.
> Although I guess that since this stuff is so clear
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:13:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 07:29:57AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > To split the (often borderline) cases of specs versus guidelines seems
> > to me to be somewhat misguided.
>
> Well, that's nice, but if our best reason is "it seems
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 07:29:57AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> To split the (often borderline) cases of specs versus guidelines seems
> to me to be somewhat misguided.
Well, that's nice, but if our best reason is "it seems to me", we're not
going to get anywhere, because it seems to me to be qui
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 05:34:52PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > I think this makes a lot of conceptual sense. However, I don't think
> > that having three separate documents necessarily makes sense from a
> > reader's or editor's point of view.
>
> I'm inclined to disagree: I don't see there b
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 10:55:14PM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 01:31:26AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:40:13AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > I'd like to rewrite policy soonish.
> > Into what, exactly?
> > [...] split policy into three se
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 01:31:26AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:40:13AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I'd like to rewrite policy soonish.
>
> Into what, exactly?
>
> Last time this came up we had a nice flamewar about it, but didn't seem
> to resolve anything -- do
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:40:13AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I'd like to rewrite policy soonish.
Into what, exactly?
Last time this came up we had a nice flamewar about it, but didn't seem
to resolve anything -- does it really make sense to do a rewrite while we
as a project don't seem to h
At (time_t)1027611024 Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> I would rather recommend using the existing Note tag with a
> Role="rationale" attribute.
This is a good idea. Extending DocBook with new tags is trivial,
but is best done only when DocBook clearly fails to provide a
needed construct.
The styleshe
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:40:13AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I know that Manoj has been talking about moving to the DocBook DTD for
> the next version of policy. What are people's experiences with it?
> How does it compare to the DebianDoc DTD for what we are likely to
> want to do? Could we
Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I know that Manoj has been talking about moving to the DocBook DTD for
> the next version of policy. What are people's experiences with it?
I use DocBook for all documents and manpages now and it works great.
> How does it compare to the DebianDoc DTD for what w
I'd like to rewrite policy soonish. I've been talking about it for
ages, but life has been *so* busy I'm at an awesome summer camp
right now as a mentor, and that's a 24/7 job, so it'll be a few
weeks yet.
Primary question right now:
I know that Manoj has been talking about moving to the Doc
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