Anthony Towns wrote:
> Anyway, I'd thought we were considering removing all the symlinks in one
> shot rather than waiting for every package to be updated. Indeed, Manoj's
> message to the tech ctte said:
Yes, we can do that. Things to watch out for:
- old aliened packages that have /usr/doc dire
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 01:07, Joey Hess wrote:
[script should not blow away local issues or modifications]
> None of that should probably be blown away. Deleting all symlinks and
> then checking what's left and either giving up or taking some smart
> action with the remainder, perhaps?
Do we real
So can we get something in policy about invoke-rc.d now? I'm chomping at
the bit to turn this on in debhelper; it's already default in v4 mode
and I've seen no problems out of it.
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On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Joey Hess wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > We have never released "suddenly" a new stable distribution, and I don't
> > think sarge will be an exception. People have the complete lifetime of
> > woody to change habits, if they are very used to do "cd /usr/doc".
>
> zsh-folk
Now that Woody is release, what is going to happen with all those
pending policy proposals? (yeah, mine is over 1 year old, and I'd
still like to see it included...)
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Hello.
I just wonderd if you could not make ps, dvi and perhaps even pdf versions
available of the Debian documentation, like for example the Debian Policy
document?
Best wishes
Gunnar.
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On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:12:52PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > If noone who is faimilar with the history and aims of this transition
> > has any objects, the I will upload the new debhelper tomorrow, I guess.
>
> Sounds good. I suppose Santiago'll also be
retitle 69311 [PROPOSAL] Symlinks in /usr/doc not mandatory anymore.
thanks
[ I naively proposed something like this after the release of potato,
but it was not the right time... ].
Proposed patch to current policy:
diff -r -u debian-policy-3.5.6.1.orig/policy.sgml
debian-policy-3.5.6.1/polic
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Bug#69311: [PROPOSAL] Finishing the /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc transition.
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Santiago Vila (2002-07-22 12:02:56 +0200) :
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> I'm looking for seconds for this proposal, which is *just* to stop
> requiring symlinks.
Seconded.
Roland.
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Sorry, forgot to properly Cc: the bug address. Please second to the
bug address as well...
Proposed patch to current policy:
diff -r -u debian-policy-3.5.6.1.orig/policy.sgml
debian-policy-3.5.6.1/policy.sgml
--- debian-policy-3.5.6.1.orig/policy.sgml Thu Mar 14 19:17:48 2002
+++ debian-pol
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:02:56PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> diff -r -u debian-policy-3.5.6.1.orig/policy.sgml
> debian-policy-3.5.6.1/policy.sgml
> --- debian-policy-3.5.6.1.orig/policy.sgmlThu Mar 14 19:17:48 2002
> +++ debian-policy-3.5.6.1/policy.sgml Mon Jul 22 11:19:58 2002
> @@ -738
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Joey Hess wrote:
> So can we get something in policy about invoke-rc.d now? I'm chomping at
Yes, please apply the already approved stuff. policy has been unfrozen,
now...
I will send to this list before tomorrow a new prolicy proposal to account
for the transition from foo-rc
Santiago Vila (2002-07-22 12:28:59 +0200) :
> Sorry, forgot to properly Cc: the bug address. Please second to the
> bug address as well...
>
> Proposed patch to current policy:
>
> diff -r -u debian-policy-3.5.6.1.orig/policy.sgml
> debian-policy-3.5.6.1/policy.sgml
> --- debian-policy-3.5.6.1.or
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Santiago Vila wrote:
> retitle 69311 [PROPOSAL] Symlinks in /usr/doc not mandatory anymore.
> thanks
>
> [ I naively proposed something like this after the release of potato,
> but it was not the right time... ].
>
> Proposed patch to current policy:
>
> diff -r -u debian
Colin Watson wrote:
> Seconded. I believe this is consistent with the original proposal
> approved by the TC.
Likewise seconded.
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:02:56PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> retitle 69311 [PROPOSAL] Symlinks in /usr/doc not mandatory anymore.
> thanks
> [ I naively proposed something like this after the release of potato,
> but it was not the right time... ].
> Proposed patch to current policy:
[actu
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>doc=/usr/share/doc
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>less ~doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz
>
> Nice. however how is this different from setting doc to /usr/share/doc
> and then using $doc to refer to it? The only thing I can see is that it
> get's expanded if I use tab completion, bu
On Jul 21, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Heath wrote:
> > That was years ago. And, now that we are at this point, we should do
> > it right, and not following the recommendation given by some group of
> > people long ago that didn't forsee this problem.
>
> That is false. We forsaw this problem 3 years
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