Re: Moving doc section of policy and packaging manuals

2000-06-08 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:55:33PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I would like to move the dhelp sections of debian-policy and > packaging-manual to debian rather than programming Yes, please do! cheers -- Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a truly elegant proof of the or[EMAIL P

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

2000-06-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > I've just read through the virtual packages list, and there's barely a > > > virtual package which either doesn't do this already, for example awk > > > says: > > > awk

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

2000-06-08 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 01:02:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > The same way we say "(POSIX) shell scripts should use /bin/sh and not > > > /bin/bash" we should probably say "awk scripts should use /usr/bin/awk, > > > not /usr/bin/nawk". > > > > Are there a significant number of pieces of sof

proposal: treat plugins and shared libraries differently

2000-06-08 Thread David Benson
IANAD. But I want to be... :) In any event, I hope the following change can be made so my package (gdam at http://www.ffem.org/gdam) can be made lintian clean. = PROPOSAL: Shared libraries and "plugins" should be