Re: RE Open Source Jedi Prophet Barry Beckman RE Rackspace Open Source Servers

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:02:25PM -0500, Barry Beckman wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2001/debian-project-200103/msg5.html > > Greetings Debian disciples, > > Please excuse this interruption as a notice that the above page is outdated. > Most of the contents are correct alth

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> I do hope you trust is to make changes sensibly. In fact the current Wichert> reference draft already has some information on the backward and Wichert> forward compatibility guarantees dpkg gives. Oh,, absolutely. But

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Bowman
* Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020502 09:54]: > Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I understand that dpkg can be used elsewhere than Debian, but > > it's de facto purpose is to serve as the Debian packaging system. > > I'm somewhat interested in having dpkg accepted in other environments

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Bowman
* Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020502 09:54]: > Le Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:05:06AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: > > I'd like to add a chapter: > > > > - working with the upstream maintainers > > Something else I wanted to add is : > « What you always wanted to know about X » > where X

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Grant Bowman wrote: > This is somewhat an aside, but this is already moving away from > GNU/Debian Linux specific through several ports of GNU/Debian. There > are the hurd, bsd and win32/cygwin ports already. I have never been able to find patches for the win32/cygwin port though. I kn

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:12:54PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Surely either everything necessary should be in the dpkg reference or > everything necessary should be in policy. I really don't want to see > it split up into two separate documents, for that way lies madness > again. IMHO

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Anthony Towns
Is there any reason for this thread to still be on -project? It's entirely about rewriting debian-policy now, isn't it? On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:32:11PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > So if the dpkg reference doesn't document everything that Debian needs > > in this respect, what is the best

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:20:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Julian> Surely either everything necessary should be in the dpkg reference or > Julian> everything necessary should be in policy. q > On the other hand, all packages

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Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:09:11AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Part I: The Debian Archive > 1: DFSG and the sections of the archive (free, non-free, contrib, non-us) "Components" is a much better word to use here. (And is the word used everywhere but -policy, just ab

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:24:23AM -0700, Grant Bowman écrivait: > Sounds like a chapter on "Debian Teams", I like this concept. While you > may get a chapter co-maintainer, it would be good to clearly assign > responsibility for content to a representative from each team. If you > provide an exa

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > > > I was hoping to get libpkg-guide (library packaging guide) into > > > > Developers Reference, although the terms and language is quite > > > > different. > > > Agreed ... it fits well

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:05:06AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: > Unfortunately I do not yet have any other co-maintainers -- > volunteers, anyone? I'm volunteering. I'm going to spend some time on it but I really wish you could propose a new structure before I start filling the gaps. Cheers, -

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:05:06AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: > > Unfortunately I do not yet have any other co-maintainers -- > > volunteers, anyone? > > I'm volunteering. I'm going to spend some time on it but I really wish > you could propose a

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>""Luca" == "Luca <- De Whiskey's - De Vitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> writes: Luca> The dpkg reference should describe what is a dpkg package and Luca> its internals: As well as any new or optional input or output, and actions not required for packaging (dpkg-deb -x details do not need

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2002-05-03 Thread Thomas Ulrich Nockmann
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Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > This is rather non-sensical: all packages /are/ left to the whimsy of > the dpkg developers. If you don't believe me, I'm sure Wichert or Adam > will be happy to introduce some random bugs in dpkg 1.10.x to demonstrate. Just say the word, and we'd be hap

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:20:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Julian> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:30:34PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > >> > >> Refer to a dpkg reference instead and document extra restrictions > > Julian> Su

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:13:41PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Luca> At last we need a document that tells maintainers how to build > Luca> a dpkg package from source, assuming both to be Debian policy > Luca> compliant (since we choose dpkg as our official packaging > Luca> tool). Such a