Bug#42849: er

1999-08-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
retitle 42849 [PROPOSED] FHS-compliant location of compiled examples severity 42849 wishlist close 42857 thanks My bug report #42857 was actually intended to be a second to Joey's proposal -- it may have got lost in the BTS (having been submitted with subject "er"!). Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Processed: Re: Bug#42849: er

1999-08-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 42849 [PROPOSED] FHS-compliant location of compiled examples Bug#42849: er Changed bug title. > severity 42849 wishlist Bug#42849: [PROPOSED] FHS-compliant location of compiled examples Severity set to `wishlist'. > close 42857 Bug#42857: er B

Re: Hard-coding release names in policy (was Re: [PROPOSED} delay the /usr/doc transition)

1999-08-12 Thread Chris Waters
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > >>"Chris" == Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris> Sorry, I'm not saying the latter is an inherently bad thing to > Chris> do, I'm saying that if that's our *only* option, then we may > Chris> have a problem. I *do* think it's b

Re: Bug#42477: PROPOSED} delay the /usr/doc transition till after potato

1999-08-12 Thread Chris Waters
Mike Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Furthermore, it is clear that the proposal was not at all serious, > but a measure intended only to buy time. Excuse me? It was most definitely *both*! And moreover, to give us a clean release of Potato, and to give us an entire release cycle to get Wo

Re: What would the tree look like? (was Re: er)

1999-08-12 Thread Chris Waters
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I presume (as I mentioned in my seconding of the proposal) that Joey > means a symlink such as > /usr/share/doc//examples/bin -> /usr/lib//examples Yes, but it needs to *say* that. Let's get the corrections in first, *then* start the seconding process

Bug#41232: AMENDMENT 1999-07-23 FINAL DRAFT] Build-time dependencies on binary packages

1999-08-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 02:18:41AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > Thus the discussion should end on Friday, the 13th of this month. This deadline is almost at hand. I've produced a final draft of the amendment for your review. Consider it frozen: i will not make any substantial changes

Bug#41232: AMENDMENT 1999-07-23 FINAL DRAFT] Build-time dependencies on binary packages

1999-08-12 Thread Kristoffer . Rose
Antti-Juhani proposes: > This deadline is almost at hand. I've produced a final draft of the > amendment for your review. Consider it frozen: i will not make any > substantial changes to it anymore - only simple thinkos and typos will > be corrected. I hope we can get a consensus to back this a

Re: Bug#41232: AMENDMENT 1999-07-23 FINAL DRAFT] Build-time dependencies on binary packages

1999-08-12 Thread Roman Hodek
> This deadline is almost at hand. I've produced a final draft of the > amendment for your review. I agree with this version. > If it is necessary, a separate amendment can establish a way to > conditionalise based on build architecture. You mean the target architecture? > The set definition s

Re: Bug#41232: AMENDMENT 1999-07-23 FINAL DRAFT] Build-time dependencies on binary packages

1999-08-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 03:43:27PM +0200, Roman Hodek wrote: > You mean the target architecture? No. The dpkg-architecture terminology may confuse you. Here's from Packaging Manual 3.0.1.0 section 3.2.1 (debian/rules - the main building script): "... BUILD for specification of the build machine o

Re: Hard-coding release names in policy (was Re: [PROPOSED} delay the /usr/doc transition)

1999-08-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Chris" == Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Well, when I made the proposal that started this thread, I was Chris> thinking in terms of a freeze date of Sept. 1. Apparently, Chris> we're not going to freeze quite that soon, which does change Chris> things, and I'm willing

Architecture-specific example files

1999-08-12 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Joey Hess writes: JH> Ok, I propose the following change to section 6.6: [...] JH> Architecture-specific example files should be installed in JH> a directory + `/usr/lib//examples`, with a symlink to + JH> `/usr/share/doc//examples` Do you have any tangible examples of an architecture-