On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:01:42PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> Without even looking at them, I can tell you the following:
>
> 1) *if* the packages comply with dist.html, they will _never_ get into
> potato.
> 2) If they don't comply with dist.html, you will not be allowed to
> distribute them.
>
> It's basically a lose/lose situation. If you want dist.html-compliant debs
> for your own use or for unofficial use, that's fine. But they will never go
> into debian, because they are in gross violation of debian's packaging
> policy, and also there are already source packages for these programs in
> debian.
>
1. I do not want them in potato, they may go into woody later, see below.
2. We all know.
I know the source packages in potato. The produced debs do not comply with
dist.html, I would not use them, e.g.: no /var/qmail/bin, nofiles replaced by
nogroup.
> --Adam
>
Gerrit.
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 03:19:04PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > Announce of the following Debian GNU/Linux (potato) packages for testing:
[...]
> > Debian/potato users: Please test these packages and take a look if they
> > comply with http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html and
> > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/var-qmail.html , they may go into woody later.
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