weekly policy summary

1999-12-11 Thread Joey Hess
Here's what's been happening on debian-policy this week. Do we have consensus on any of the listed amendments? Let me know.. Note: for details of the policy process, see http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/policy/ch3.html. Also, this summary is available on the web at http://kitenet.net/~joey/policy-

Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes

1999-12-11 Thread Chris Waters
Anthony Towns writes: > And make dpkg's ordering rules more strict, for no good reason. No good reason? How about the very good reason that these packages are essential, and if they aren't handled strictly and carefully, we have problems. As we've just seen. But ok, if you don't like that, th

Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes

1999-12-11 Thread Chris Waters
[following up my own post to cover some points I missed] Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anthony Towns writes: > > And make dpkg's ordering rules more strict, for no good reason. > No good reason? How about the very good reason that these packages > are essential, and if they aren'