Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages

1996-09-03 Thread Guy Maor
On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Michael Meskes wrote: 'Distribution: experimental' means unstable, doesn't it? Or do you really mean the experimental subtree under project? No, `experimental' means the experimental subtree under project. `unstable' is unstable. Guy

Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages

1996-09-02 Thread Michael Meskes
Ian Jackson writes: When a package is uploaded an announcement should be posted to tt/debian-changes/. The announcement should give the (source) package name and version number, and a very short summary of the changes, in the prgn/Subject/ field, and should contain the PGP-signed

Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages

1996-08-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Meskes writes (Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages): Ian Jackson writes: Can we please have a statement on what we should do ? I think we should post the release announcements to debian-changes as well has having the summary postings. If people want just the summaries we should

Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages

1996-08-27 Thread Michael Meskes
Ian Jackson writes: Can we please have a statement on what we should do ? I think we should post the release announcements to debian-changes as well has having the summary postings. If people want just the summaries we should provide a separate list. I second all of that. Michael --

Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages

1996-08-24 Thread Michael Meskes
Guy Maor writes: The 'xx New Debian i386 Packages' mail *is* the announcement I Oops, then I missed something. Aren't we supposed to make an announcement anymore? mentioned earlier. Some developers also post the .changes file when they upload it, but that's at their option. It really isn't

Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages

1996-08-23 Thread Michael Meskes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These i386 packages were installed into the Debian hierarchy. Unfortunately, the version number changes and locations are incorrect in a few cases. The bug has since been fixed. [...] I've scanned through this list and found quite a lot of packages I never read

Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages

1996-08-23 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote: I've scanned through this list and found quite a lot of packages I never read an announcement of. I usually read debian-{devel,changes,user,private} so I take it I should have found this announcements. But I never have. Did I just miss them? Or is