Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2017-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
> Le Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 09:06:15AM +, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : > > > > the following sentence in 2.5 leave much room for maneuver, therefor i > > would like to see a clarification how it should be interpreted: > > > > | Important programs, including those which one would expect to find

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > You rightfull object that 'the expectation is that an experienced Unix > person' is subjective in nature and leads to contradictory opinion. > So maybe we should replace the phrase 'If the expectation is ...' by a > reference to standard that define what UNIX is (POSIX,

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 09:06:15AM +, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: important > > Hi, > > the following sentence in 2.5 leave much room for maneuver, therefor i > would like to see a clarification how it should be interpreted: > > | Important programs, includ

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Thu Jan 29, 2015 at 21:36:11 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Bill Allombert: > > > > On the other hand, ed scripts are still in use: > > > > - by diff > > > > > > Reasonable people have been using "diff -u" for the last umpteen years. > > > > Why so much drama ? I am sure you d

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bill Allombert: > > > On the other hand, ed scripts are still in use: > > > - by diff > > > > Reasonable people have been using "diff -u" for the last umpteen years. > > Why so much drama ? I am sure you did not intend to call me unreasonnable, yet > your post suggests it. > No, of course

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 05:55:11PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Bill Allombert: > > On the other hand, ed scripts are still in use: > > - by diff > > Reasonable people have been using "diff -u" for the last umpteen years. Why so much drama ? I am sure you did not intend to call me un

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2015-01-29 16:55, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Bill Allombert: [...] - by apt-get: the pdiff system use ed scripts which I assume has a dependency on ed. apt uses an internal implementation. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:49:42AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Martin Zobel-Helas: > > the following sentence in 2.5 leave much room for maneuver, therefor i > > would like to see a clarification how it should be interpreted: > > > > | Important programs, including those which one wo

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bill Allombert: > On the other hand, ed scripts are still in use: > - by diff Reasonable people have been using "diff -u" for the last umpteen years. > - by apt-get: the pdiff system use ed scripts > which I assume has a dependency on ed. > so it is useful to keep the reference to what thi

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 09:06:15AM +, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : > > the following sentence in 2.5 leave much room for maneuver, therefor i > would like to see a clarification how it should be interpreted: > > | Important programs, including those which one would expect to find on > | any U

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Zobel-Helas: > the following sentence in 2.5 leave much room for maneuver, therefor i > would like to see a clarification how it should be interpreted: > > | Important programs, including those which one would expect to find on > | any Unix-like system. If the expectation is that an ex

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Package: debian-policy Severity: important Hi, the following sentence in 2.5 leave much room for maneuver, therefor i would like to see a clarification how it should be interpreted: | Important programs, including those which one would expect to find on | any Unix-like system. If the expectation