-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 07:27:05PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Data section (#38902) > * Consensus. > * Proposed on 3 Jun 1999 by Darren O. Benham; seconded by Peter S > Galbraith and Peter Makholm. > * "Since there is interest in packaging census data, maps, genome > data and other huge datasets I and since most people agreed that > dropping them in main or contrib is not a great idea, I propose > the creation of a data section to reside along side of main, > contrib and non-free." Includes rules about what goes in this > section.
Seconded. > MIME support sub-policy > * Under discussion. > * Proposed by J.H.M. Dassen; seconded by Raul Miller, Wichert > Akkerman and Chris Waters. > * Adds section to policy about registration as a MIME handler. The > added section references a new mime sub-policy document. This > proposal just documents existing practice. That is bug #46516, and I'd like to second it, FWIW. > Config files must have manpages (#45406) > * Stalled. > * Proposed by Nicolás Lichtmaier; seconded by Oliver Elphick and > Josip Rodin. > * Require every config file have a man page. Note that my wording hasn't been approved 100% by the proposer and other seconder - frankly, I'm having second thoughts about it, considering the amount of files which would need to get a manpage... seems rather pointless. > Correct section 3.3 to take account of file-rc (#41547) > * Old. > * Proposed by Julian Gilbey; seconded by Roland Rosenfeld and > Anthony Towns. > * Part of policy doesn't make sense if file-rc is being used. This > proposal is to clean it up so it does make sense, and moreover so > it emphasizes that update-rc.d is the only thing that should be > used to register init scripts. Seconded. > Virtual package ident-server (#45307) > * Stalled. > * Proposed by Chris Lawrence; seconded by Sean 'Shaleh' Perry. > * Proposes a "ident-daemon" virtual package. Seconded. > Permit/require use of bz2 for source packages (#39299) > * Old. > * Proposed on 10 Jun 1999 by Chris Lawrence; seconded by Goswin > Brederlow. > * "I propose that we permit the use of bzip2 to compress source > package files (.orig.tar and .diff for most packages, .tar for > native packages). I further propose that the use of bzip2 be > mandatory for newly uploaded source files, and that any existing > source packages in the archive in gzip format exceeding 5 MB of > compressed space be converted upon the freeze for potato." > ( The reason this was proposed is because we're almost overflowing > the second source CD already. This is a very contentious proposal. ) Seconded. - -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOADKVIdGxXDOoJfVAQE8iQP/VoAxViqIeRfKl1u3Qt7rm0jOTwiK5+qR 39pbTI0ZHvYo0J514rkQxZWLdvAKpK5psahWV0q91mSPLxZ8vn148tSiV39C6aRt AkjDihOVRE6KY92WrDruEVGf3LVdR0mNgSDN2GcECIYQl1ptHdY0HgGkDuivlNyI C14s2M/ZREM= =dree -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
