Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

Hi, If you are looking for seconds to make this new structure the default policy documents, I would be willing to be a second. manoj -- /* dbmrefcnt--; */ /* doesn't work, rats */ Larry Wall in hash.c from the perl source code Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

Hello On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:30:08PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > I've finished moving things around. See it at: > > http://www.srce.hr/~joy/policy/ Looks good. I would like a section 11.12 Java packages that points to the Java policy. It looks really good as far as I have che

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:38:07AM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > > One thing, which I always find hard to find, is the rules about > > indentation/syntax of extended package descriptions. ... > Sorry, forget about this. I did not read carefully enough :-( Yes :) If you search for "description" in

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ... uses dpkg-source ... Thus all source packages consist of > three files name.orig.tar.gz, name.diff.gz, > and name.dsc What about debian-native packages? I don't think this is true for them. -- Blars Blarson

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

Hello, another suggestion: On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:30:08PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Notably, source packages and binary packages now have their own chapters, > and in these chapters there's stuff from both the old Debian archive chapter > and from the "packaging considerations" (a.k.a. misc

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:18:58AM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > One thing, which I always find hard to find, is the rules about > indentation/syntax of extended package descriptions. ... Sorry, forget about this. I did not read carefully enough :-( Jochen --

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

Hello, On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:30:08PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > I've shuffled many sections around within the policy manual chapters so that > there's less cruft and redundancy. One thing, which I always find hard to find, is the rules about indentation/syntax of extended package descriptio

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:08:21 +0100, >> Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On that note, by proofreading the debian/rules sections I > determined that the last restructuring caused bug #88029. Not that > there was anything wrong with the method used[1], it merely made me > lament the f

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:13:05PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Were there any normative changes made whan this restructuring was done? A few non-controversial things, I think. I added all the fields (like Closes, Changed-By and possibly others) to the Policy and described those that weren't

Re: first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:30:08 +0100, >> Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, I've finished moving things around. See it at: > http://www.srce.hr/~joy/policy/ > I've replaced many packaging manual sections that were integrated > into policy sections with links to the latter.

first batch of restructuring in the policy manual

Hi, I've finished moving things around. See it at: http://www.srce.hr/~joy/policy/ I've replaced many packaging manual sections that were integrated into policy sections with links to the latter. I've aimed to eliminate needlessly deep section levels, and for example split out the binar