Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-02 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:02:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > --- orig/policy.sgml > +++ mod/policy.sgml > @@ -8450,6 +8450,39 @@ > be present in the future. > > > + > + > + Manual pages that are installed under > + /usr/share/man/ll, where ll Please

Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-02 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:31:45PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:24:43PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:02:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > + is an ISO-639 language code, must be encoded with the usual > >

Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-03 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Colin, it becomes now slightly off topic but let me reply a last time to this bug report. On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:11:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:30:39AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > Vietnamese is an odd case. In the long term, I think being ex

Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-04 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Colin, there is maybe one item which should be clarified. On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:52:57AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Thanks. I hope that my comments above clarify some further confusion. I > would still appreciate concrete information and examples on why you > don't like the idea of manua

Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-04 Thread Jens Seidel
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:35:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:04:32PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > > Is it save to use UTF-8 characters if a very similar character exists in > > ASCII or can be expressed using groff macros? Think about the many > >

Wrong handling of empty strings in version numbers

2003-08-26 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi all, I think the handling of empty strings in version numbers is wrong (tested with dpkg 1.10.10). I experienced with two packages pkg_1.1beta3-1_i386.deb and pkg_1.1-1_i386.deb. It seems that 1.1beta3-1 is newer than version 1.1-1. Is this true? OK, let's analyze Debian Policy 3.6.1.0, secti

Re: Policy Translation

2006-04-10 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Felipe, I added Manoj Srivastava to CC: because he has write access to the debian-policy CVS module (http://cvs.debian.org/debian-policy/?root=debian-policy). Since it is stored outside DDP (debian-doc module) I doubt that people from the DDP have write access to it. On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 07

Re: resignation from Debian Policy team

2005-04-17 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:47:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I hereby tender my resignation as a member of the Debian Policy team. > > Debian webmasters, > > Please update http://www.debian.org/intro/organization accordingly. Done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s