Bug#114920: PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistence in perl module names

2001-10-09 Thread ivan
I object to this proposal for the reasons outlined below. I _do_ agree with the spirit of the proposal and would support it if the issues below were resolved. The amendment should explicitly specify a maximum length rather than the ambiguous "too long and cumbersome". This should be a general po

Bug#114920: PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistence in perl module names

2001-10-09 Thread ivan
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 01:31:33PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > ivan wrote: > > I object to this proposal for the reasons outlined below. I _do_ agree > > with the spirit of the proposal and would support it if the issues below > > were resolved. > > > > The amen

Bug#114920: PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistence in perl module names

2001-10-09 Thread ivan
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 03:56:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > As for dselect, all this needs is full-text-search of package > descriptions in dselect (which is implemented already, and in CVS I > think), and then mentioning what modules are provided in the > description. Okay, please add the descri

Bug#51832: packaging-manual: Architecture setting: more information.

1999-12-03 Thread Ivan Baldo
1 Mon Oct 25 16:22:55 UYT 1999 i586 unknown -- Ivan Baldo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://members.xoom.com/baldo - ICQ 10215364 Phone: (598) (2) 613 3223. Caldas 1781, Malvin, Montevideo, Uruguay, South America. (If you have problems with the previous addresses, try this ones: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://baldo.home.ml.org).

Bug#51832: packaging-manual: Architecture setting: more information.

1999-12-03 Thread Ivan Baldo
Hello. Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:48:06AM -0300, Ivan Baldo wrote: > > Package: packaging-manual > > Version: 3.1.0.0 > > Severity: wishlist > > Hello. > > The packaging-manual doesn't say what is the criteria used to sel

Bug#780403: debian-policy: Define what should happen when installing a package and the init script fails to start it

2015-03-13 Thread Ivan Baldo
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist What should happen if installing a package and then when it tries to start its service it fails? Currently the most common behaviour seems to be that the installation fails. But is that the best outcome? What if the sysadmin has a reverse proxy lis

Bug#224509: is it the future yet? (was: Correct spurious promise regarding TTY availability)

2006-06-02 Thread Ivan Kohler
It has been over three years since this proposal was submitted originally, and two over two years since the discussion appears to have ended. Our users perceive this part of policy as de facto bugs and experience problems that might otherwise be avoided; see #282147 and #298425 for example. Ti

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages]

1999-05-26 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
an old thread > that I saw reborn and kill too often. My english is not perfect, so it's > certainly need some correction but I think the idea is here. ---end quoted text--- I like this idea. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: imp blows away hand-edited changes...

1999-11-21 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
to this. The package does follow policy in this manner. Just because I haven't had the chance to finish my configuration pieces of it and work out other bugs doesn't mean I'm not following policy. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com

Re: imp blows away hand-edited changes...

1999-11-23 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
had implemented a way of doing it safely and sanely. I understand your poinnt, and I'm not excusing myself when I say this, but I wanted to work on things one piece at a time...I didn't want to do everything needed first just to have a ton of possible things to troubleshoot. I wanted

Re: imp blows away hand-edited changes...

1999-11-28 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
.this should clear up the problems I overlooked. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD pgpgCSdeswR8m.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#50617: imp blows away hand-edited changes...

1999-11-29 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
l conf from the > template, or provide a Makefile or script which does it automatically) also..I forgot to put this piece into the generated files...will do this in the next release as well. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD

Bug#77404: Proposed: task-secure-system package

2000-11-18 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
or two..etc... Ivan -- ---- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD

Bug#115438: [PROPOSAL] addition of new menu tag for kde menu removal

2001-10-13 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
t;' to their corresponding Debian menu entry. This allows the Debian menu system to ignore creating a KDE menu entry since one already exists." Transition: Most KDE based apps already use either 'kderemove="y"' or 'kderemove="1"' so transition i

Bug#115438: PROPOSAL] addition of new menu tag for kde menu removal

2001-10-22 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 12:25:10AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > Proposal: > > > > "Packages which provide KDE menu entries must also add 'kderemove="y"' to > > their cor

Bug#115438: PROPOSAL] addition of new menu tag for kde menu removal

2001-10-23 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
KDE information such as mimetypes, help file locations, etc.. The Debian provided (or rather generated) .desktop file does not and thus KDE see's one that has this info and one that does not and does strange things which is usually that it prefers the later .desktop file it r

Bug#115438: PROPOSAL] addition of new menu tag for kde menu removal

2001-10-23 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:53:24AM -0700, Carl R. Witty wrote: > "Ivan E. Moore II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:42:06PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:13:31PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > &g

Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
it comes to embedded applications/libraries or does this policy need a revision? Ivan -- ---- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
way maintainers can't just decide not to provide them no matter what users think. Example would be that I want to not provide static libs of Qt/E 2...however if someone out there actually needs them for some god awful reason I would do so. It's not like I don't have disk space. It just a) sucks uploading/downloading crap over my dial up modem and b) seems a big waste to me. :) Ivan