Re: policy violation and bug reports. - some resolution?

1998-03-06 Thread Jim
So what's the problem with something like case `id -u` in 0) # whatever we want for root ;; *) # whatever we want for everybody else ;; esac ? Answer: The attitude described by the phrase whatever WE want for (whoever) Howbout: We have scripts in a dir like /etc/bash/scripts in which

On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those other packages be tagged Essential as well? Currently, gzip (Essential) depends on debianutils (non-Essential). -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y

Re: On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 05:11:08PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those other packages be tagged Essential as well? Currently, gzip (Essential) depends on debianutils (non-Essential).

Re: Namespace pollution

1998-03-06 Thread Brian White
I propose the following policy: No package shall create without approval any command name (or corresponding manpage): 1. not matching the regexp ^[a-z0-9].. 2. matching ^... if it creates more than two such 3. matching [^-+._,a-z0-9], or 4. which is a single common dictionary word Do

lintian: symlinks from /usr/lib into /lib

1998-03-06 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: lintian Version: 0.3.0 E: e2fslibsg-dev: symlink-should-be-absolute usr/lib/libe2p.so ../../lib/libe2p.so.2.3 N: N: Symbolic links into /etc or /var should be absolute. N: N: Refer to Policy Manual, section 3.3.5 for details. N: Neither the policy nor the packaging manual do say

new policy for pixmaps and bitmaps ?

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Bramer
Hello I think we should make a new policy: All pixmaps and bitmaps are locate under /usr/X11R6/include/X11/[pixmaps|bitmaps]. The idea is that the config of all the window-manager und other programs with icons, use the same place. The result is, that the user don't have to search for the

Re: lintian: symlinks from /usr/lib into /lib

1998-03-06 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: Package: lintian Version: 0.3.0 E: e2fslibsg-dev: symlink-should-be-absolute usr/lib/libe2p.so ../../lib/libe2p.so.2.3 N: N: Symbolic links into /etc or /var should be absolute. N: N: Refer to Policy Manual,