Re: Bug#54810: ought to depend on logrotate

2000-01-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:05:52PM +, Steve Haslam wrote: > > So to my way of thinking, no logs should be rotated if there isn't a > > logrotate package installed. If there is one or not is up to the > > administrator, though I strongly suggest one... > > So all packages that rotate their log

Bug#53763: Objection

2000-01-12 Thread Darren O. Benham
There is one part of this that I object to... The requirement that xbase-clients be installed. In a console-only environment, the admin shouldn't be forced to install a bunch of xclient apps. There is atleast one console program that is following this proceedure: bitchx. Instead, I'd rather see

Bug#53763: Objection

2000-01-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 04:47:22PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: > There is one part of this that I object to... > > The requirement that xbase-clients be installed. In a console-only > environment, the admin shouldn't be forced to install a bunch of xclient > apps. There is atleast one console

Bug#53762: PROPOSED] applying the FHS to packages that use X

2000-01-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:21:36PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I like this! (Read: seconded) At long last, we may be able to do > away with the regular /usr/X11R6/bin vs. /usr/bin debate! That's the hope (one of several, anyway). > But if we accept this (which seems likely, given no objection

Re: Bug#54810: ought to depend on logrotate

2000-01-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 11-Jan-00, 17:13 (CST), Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's say cron's maintainer decides to convert > /etc/cron.daily/standard to use logrotate, in concordance with the > current policy manual. Strictly speaking, there are no "log" files managed in cron.daily/standard. There are

Bug#53762: PROPOSED] applying the FHS to packages that use X

2000-01-12 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > + Packages using the X Window System should abide by the FHS > + standard whenever possible; they should install binaries, > + libraries, manual pages, and other files in FHS-mandated > + locations wherever possible; this means

Bug#53762: PROPOSED] applying the FHS to packages that use X

2000-01-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:21:36PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I like this! (Read: seconded) At long last, we may be able to do > away with the regular /usr/X11R6/bin vs. /usr/bin debate! Seconded as well. At one time we will be able to drop /usr/X11R6. (I am certain that this will happen at

Bug#53762: PROPOSED] applying the FHS to packages that use X

2000-01-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:33:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > But if we accept this (which seems likely, given no objections > > received so far), let's try to get the icon/pixmap/whatever issue > > solved at the same time, because packages won't be permitted to use > > /usr/X11R6/include/X

Bug#54679: packaging-manual: Please include japanese translated version

2000-01-12 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi, policy members. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, at Mon, 10 Jan 2000 02:48:23 +0900, on Bug#54679: packaging-manual: Please include japanese translated version, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Package: packaging-manual > Version: 3.1.1.1 > > Please include Japanese translated version of p

Re: Bug#54425: gnome-users-guide-en: The link html -> ../../gnome/help/users-guide/C breaks on my system

2000-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* H.-Dirk Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the -policy folks: gnome-users-guide-en has its files in /usr/share/gnome/help/users-guide/C/ /usr/share/doc/gnome-users-guide-en/html is a link to ../../gnome/help/users-guide/C > My doc dir is a link to another partition (space probs). Because

Re: Bug#54425: gnome-users-guide-en: The link html -> ../../gnome/help/users-guide/C breaks on my system

2000-01-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:22:33PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * H.-Dirk Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the -policy folks: > > gnome-users-guide-en has its files in /usr/share/gnome/help/users-guide/C/ > > /usr/share/doc/gnome-users-guide-en/html is a link to > ../../gnome/hel

Re: Bug#54425: gnome-users-guide-en: The link html -> ../../gnome/help/users-guide/C breaks on my system

2000-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Julian> On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:22:33PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> /usr/share/doc/gnome-users-guide-en/html is a link to >> ../../gnome/help/users-guide/C Julian> Hmm. Why can't you have the help files in /usr/share/doc and Juli