Re: A mechanism to amend policy documents

1998-09-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: What do the rest of you think? Is this a policy document? I agree with Adam that it's purely documentation, not part of the policy. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes

Re: A mechanism to amend policy documents

1998-09-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wichert I agree with Adam that it's purely documentation, not part Wichert of the policy. Do you not find the version numbers suggestive? debian-policy_2.4.1.3.deb developers-reference_2.4.1.3.deb

Re: /etc/adjtime, /etc/timezone, etc.

1998-09-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On 4 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Santiago But the reason policy says some files should not be Santiago conffiles is the following: Doing this will lead to dpkg Santiago giving the user confusing and possibly dangerous options Santiago for conffile update when the package is

Re: A mechanism to amend policy documents

1998-09-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On 5 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Do you not find the version numbers suggestive? debian-policy_2.4.1.3.deb developers-reference_2.4.1.3.deb packaging-manual_2.4.1.1.deb Would there be serious objections to having the policy maintainers actually take

Re: A mechanism to amend policy documents

1998-09-05 Thread john
Manoj writes: Would there be serious objections to having the policy maintainers actually take over the developers reference? I think it's an excellent idea, if you will bring it up to date and keep it there. That's more important than classifying it as documentation or policy. If needed, we

Re: Core Policy documents

1998-09-05 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around 04 Sep 1998 10:09:23 CDT, Manoj Srivastava wrote: So, what is the status of the Programmer's manual? It has been renamed to packaging manual a long time ago. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman