Re: New package standards - LAST CALL

1996-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Otmar Lendl writes in private email which I'm sure he won't mind me posting: ... What I would appreciate is, that all the Developer Ressources (Guidelines, Hints, Virtual Names, FSSTD co.) have a central WWW page where I can easily look up the currently valid standards. Could you please

Re: New package standards - LAST CALL

1996-08-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Alan Dorman writes (Re: New package standards - LAST CALL ): In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Jackson writes: Therefore I propose that unless someone raises a serious problem or issue within the next week or two the new packaging guidelines as described in the draft dpkg programmers

Re: New package standards - LAST CALL

1996-08-13 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Jackson writes: Therefore I propose that unless someone raises a serious problem or issue within the next week or two the new packaging guidelines as described in the draft dpkg programmers' manual, the draft Debian policy manual and as implemented by dpkg 1.3.x,

Re: New package standards - LAST CALL

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Miquel: If they don't react [to the request to convert to the new source package] in say 2 weeks, someone else can do it (I'll take some) like David did during the transition from a.out to ELF. Thanks for volunteering! Please make sure to merge the multi-architecture patches while you do that.

Re: New package standards - LAST CALL

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Ian Jackson: Therefore I propose that unless someone raises a serious problem or issue within the next week or two the new packaging guidelines as described in the draft dpkg programmers' manual, the draft Debian policy manual and as implemented by dpkg 1.3.x, will become official. I delegate

Re: New package standards - LAST CALL

1996-08-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Bruce Perens) wrote: Miquel: If they don't react [to the request to convert to the new source package] in say 2 weeks, someone else can do it (I'll take some) like David did during the transition from a.out to ELF. Thanks for volunteering! Please make sure to merge the

Re: New package standards - LAST CALL

1996-08-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: New package standards - LAST CALL): ... I also think that when you make the new source package official, we should warn all maintainers of the base packages and ask them to convert their packages to the new standard. If they don't react in say 2 weeks