Anthony Towns wrote:
> I think the most efficient way of handling usr/doc for woody will be to
> have everything reference /usr/share/doc, and require all packages to
> put their files in /usr/share/doc, and to make symlinks in /usr/doc. The
> latter is mainly for partial upgrades.
>
> To achieve
Anthony Towns wrote:
> + The guidelines in this manual are expected to be interpreted
> + intelligently, with a view to improving the technical quality
> + of the Debian distribution. Where a guideline in this manual
> + does not make sense for a particular pack
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:51:52AM -0400, Rene Weber wrote:
> I am unclear as to the import of "should generally" in this context. Is
> this a further diminished form of "should" (but stronger than "may")? I
> believe Debian would be better served by framing this as a "must" (after
> all, if
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:11:09AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > + The guidelines in this manual are expected to be interpreted
> > + intelligently, with a view to improving the technical quality
> > + of the Debian distribution. Where a guideline in
Your message was
From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...?
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:02:17AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Do you mean accessing docs programatically (rare) or by reference in man
> pages and error messages (sorta common)?
Programmatically, mainly.
> If the latt
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On Tuesday 26 June 2001 7:02 am, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
>
> Do you mean accessing docs programatically (rare) or by reference in
> man pages and error messages (sorta common)? If the latter, it seems
> a bit late to ask for a thuroug
I have a question related to a variety of similar common server
configurations. In many cases servers are remote; they have no
console, or the console is almost always unattended.
There are a number of settings that will make a system (even a
PC) much more robust under these circumstances.
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On Tuesday 26 June 2001 10:42 am, Stephen Stafford wrote:
> Well, if you want to write a script to find them all and it doesn't
> turn out to be too large a number (somewhere under 50 would be 'not
> too large' probably, depending on how fast freeze i
>>"Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Julian> I'm happy to add Chris's bug-fix and a couple of other small niceties
Julian> for release 3.5.5.1 as long as Manoj is OK with that.
Please go ahead. I'm holding off until after I get back from
USENIX, and am looking into h
Hi,
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes:
Anthony> +In rare cases a package may be enough of a special case that
Anthony> +it should not follow a guideline and the exception would just
Anthony> +be confusing if listed in this manual itself.
Is this likely to be the case
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please go ahead. I'm holding off until after I get back from USENIX,
> and am looking into how much work mastering XSLT and stylesheets is
> goint to take.
I'm willing to collaborate on this a bit if that would help.
Mike.
Anthony Towns wrote:
> Your message was
> From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ...?
Hmm.
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:02:17AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Do you mean accessing docs programatically (rare) or by reference in man
> > pages and error messages (sorta common)?
>
Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:11:09AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > + The guidelines in this manual are expected to be interpreted
> > > + intelligently, with a view to improving the technical quality
> > > + of the Debian dist
Anthony Towns wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:11:09AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> Anthony Towns wrote:
>> > + The guidelines in this manual are expected to be interpreted
>> > + intelligently, with a view to improving the technical quality
>> > + of the Debian distribu
Greetings!
Michel LESPINASSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:16:27PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > Greetings! This is hardly formal, but it seems as though we don't
> > have a policy on this yet, and a number of packages are appearing
> > (e.g. atlas, gmp2) which can be
Hello,
[This message is a reply to some of Anthony's text in bug #102213, where
he notes that this discussion is not relevant to the bug.]
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:12:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> That message of Herbert's was a criticism of the language in the FHS. For
> example,
Hello,
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:12:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Uh, no, it should definitely not be a "must". There is no way I'm going
> to throw a package out of the distro because it fails to mention that
> policy is stupid in some way or another.
Ok, fair enough (although sure
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