Processed: reassign to policy

2001-02-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 42399 debian-policy Bug#42399: lintian should only check for shared libs in system dirs Bug#65345: lintian treats all .so files as shared libraries Bug reassigned from package `lintian' to `debian-policy'. > reassign 35762 debian-policy Bug#35

Re: Frozen distribution?

2001-02-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 01:38:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Actually there are two reasons why unstable should change just for the > freeze. They're complementary. > > If you don't fork frozen (ie, maintain unstable and frozen independently), > then if you upload major changes to unstable, yo

Re: Frozen distribution?

2001-02-18 Thread Seth Arnold
* Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010218 05:00]: > Why suddenly change the model like this? Would the following not be > better and perhaps less confusing, still using a four-tier setup: > > stable frozen testing unstable > > Initially, frozen is set to be the same as testing, and we ca

Re: Frozen distribution?

2001-02-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:53PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Why suddenly change the model like this? The model's already changed: we went from stable frozen (temporary) unstable to stable testing (permanent) unstable > Would the following

CVS jdg: * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069

2001-02-18 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: jdg Sun Feb 18 06:23:26 PST 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml upgrading-checklist.html debian : changelog Log message: * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment c

CVS jdg: Correct -> in policy.sgml app-defaults patch

2001-02-18 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: jdg Sun Feb 18 06:37:35 PST 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml Log message: Correct -> in policy.sgml app-defaults patch

Bug#86436: Build-Depends: should vs may

2001-02-18 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I agree in general with what you are saying. However the language is still > poor. I suspect that section 7 is really trying to say -- 'A source package > may > require a binary package to be installed in order to build correctly. If it

Bug#84236: marked as done (Date typo in upgrading-checklist.text.gz)

2001-02-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:07:40 + with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Fixed in 3.5.1.0 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to

Re: Frozen distribution?

2001-02-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:23:04AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:53PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Why suddenly change the model like this? > > The model's already changed: we went from > > stable > frozen (temporary) > unstable > > to > >

Bug#86507: recommends removed package

2001-02-18 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.1.0 Severity: important -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 debian-policy still recommends packaging-manual which was recently removed because it is now part of debian-policy. Therefore, debian-policy should either drop the recommendation, or should i

CVS jdg: Fix packaging-manual recommendation

2001-02-18 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: jdg Sun Feb 18 14:18:47 PST 2001 Modified files: debian : changelog control Log message: Fix packaging-manual recommendation

Re: Frozen distribution?

2001-02-18 Thread Brian May
> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Julian> Why suddenly change the model like this? Would the Julian> following not be better and perhaps less confusing, still Julian> using a four-tier setup: I tend to agree. Basically the proposal is to map: unstable

Re: Frozen distribution?

2001-02-18 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; Anthony> charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Anthony> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Anthony> This is somewhat confused. Anthony> "testing" is maintained by