Re: Call for Seconds, Take II

1998-09-15 Thread Joseph Carter
I'll second this one completely, the other had problems but I figured we'd try and fix those after you got the seconds. I see one potential problem with this one, see below.. On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:28:54PM -0500, Zed Pobre wrote: If a program needs to specify an architecture

Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-15 Thread Guy Maor
Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [6] I see a lot of packages using arch-debian-linux though That's a violation of policy. [7] I don't understand why we use i486 for some things and i386 for others though Because of the different outputs of `dpkg --print-architecture' and `dpkg

Re: Why only one non-free section?

1998-09-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Sven do you suggest the universities start selling debian cds to finance themself. I don't see why not. They have a captive market of near-penniless students who would be willing to buy the CDs from them. As long as they don't get greedy, there's no incentive for the students to bother doing

Re: Call for Seconds, Take II

1998-09-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Zed Pobre wrote: + this string is reserved for the GNU Hurd operating system. GNU/Hurd [ I think everyone will agree on this ]. Thanks. -- 60bd5544e9f94328d8d2823b5dc2452e (a truly random sig)

Re: Why only one non-free section?

1998-09-15 Thread Sven
Now please, take this discussion elsewhere. sorry i got lost, there was a similar thread elsewhere, and i folowoed this one without looking at the mailing list it is sent to. and yes i read everything you mentioned. But does it take in account the non US situation also ? Friendmly, Sven

Re: Adding filters in printcap

1998-09-15 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Mon 14 Sep 1998, Francesco Potorti` wrote: I suggest that the policy makes clear that packages should add proper filter entries in /etc/printcap. For example, the package tetex-bin should add an fx entry in all printers in /etc/termcap. i'm useing magicfilter. where is the advatage

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:00:36PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: So should we change i386-hurd to i386-gnu on the ftp archive? This would also express the explicit wish of Gordon, IIRC. I don't think this is strictly necessary, it would add

Re: Proposal for moving /usr/doc

1998-09-15 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a solution to your problem, If your partition is, say. /disk1; create /disk1/doc and symlink that to /usr/doc and things shall be fine. Hmm. That didn't quite work when I tried it a few days ago. There are

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:00:36PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: So should we change i386-hurd to i386-gnu on the ftp archive? This would also express the explicit wish of Gordon, IIRC. I

Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-15 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 01:00:35AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Zed Pobre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... to: If a package has a vitally important piece of information to pass to the user (such as don't run me as I am, you must edit the following configuration files first or you risk

Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Enrique == Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrique But if we are going to talk about the content of the Enrique paragraph, I think we should discourage maintainers from Enrique prompting the user in the postinst. Does not saying only vital information etc convey that