Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man ", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section

2000-05-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 08:25:29PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Jules Bean wrote: [...] > > On the other hand, I can't believe it's more than a ten minute change > > to fix it. And we're not short of C programmers round here... [...] > rc kernel-headers-2.2.1 1.00

Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man ", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section

2000-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: > The key phrase is "current dpkg". I don't this fix is in potato dpkg. A > shame. Actually, it is. -- see shy jo

Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man ", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section

2000-05-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 11:27:36PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > The key phrase is "current dpkg". I don't this fix is in potato dpkg. A > > shame. > > Actually, it is. I stand happily corrected. Too bad we can't get groff to pay attention to terminal width... :( --

Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man ", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section

2000-05-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 08:25:29PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > I resized my xterm and used a current dpkg. Cool! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Virtual packages (was Re: Bug#64006:)

2000-05-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:04:04AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > My original statement: "we should document the APIs provided by > virtual packages." > > My modified statement in light of all the feedback I've gotten: "we > should document whatever common interface (including none) that our > virtu

Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man ", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section

2000-05-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 03:14:55PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > How about: > > > > 12345678901234 > > deb-docs -> deb-docs > > deb-packaging-> deb-packaging > > deb-policy -> deb-policy

Bug#64437: PROPOSED] Must/Should/May in policy

2000-05-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 06:32:00PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:07:12AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > Every time you put more than one shell command (this > > > > includes using a loop) in a makefile command you > > > > - must make s

Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man ", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section

2000-05-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:58:25AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > No debian packages currently begin with 'deb-'; let's not introduce a > > new prefix. > > Curious. I had exactly the opposite thought. It would let us start > fresh with a consistent naming scheme. Oh well. We already have:

Bug#64437: PROPOSED] Must/Should/May in policy

2000-05-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:30:32AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > > Every time you put more than one shell command (this > > > > > includes using a loop) in a makefile command you > > > > > - must make sure that errors are trapped. For > > > > > + should ma

Policy updating?

2000-05-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
Well, there was a lot of noise about Ian's proposals about policy management, but we now seem to be stuck. It appears from an email he sent that Manoj is unwilling to modify policy for the time being until we have a concensus or dictate of some sort on this matter, and I sort of agree. At the mom