Package: debian-policy
Version: 2.5.0.0
Severity: normal
The list of current policy editors should be part of the documentation
shipped with the 'debian-policy' package, perhaps in
/usr/doc/debian-policy/README. Otherwise the information is hidden
and undisclosed, which seems like a cabal to
severity fixed 22308
thanks
The list, debian-policy@lists.debian.org, is now listed as the
maintainer for the pacakge; therefore, all bug reports and followups
go to this list and this bug may be closed.
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.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Look, I love the new system for maintaining Policy. I lobbied hard
for it. But this system is *barely* able to keep up with the course
of changes for the Packaging Manual and the Debian Policy. You can
try to deny this is true but it is. Bugs are
Hi,
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam I still don't really understand what is intended by moving
Adam sub-policies into the policy manual. Is it intended that the Debian
Adam Policy group take editorial control over the documents?
Yes. If it is important enough to
Hi,
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], James LewisMoss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Everyone changes policy based on discussion here.
Adam Um, kinda. You have to go though a whole *process*.
Yes, everyon has to go through the whole
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is not the job of policy maintainers to take a bug to the
final acceptance. It is the responsibility of this mailing list, and
quite frankly, most people on this mailing list have been doing
little but talk when
Hi,
Zed == Zed Pobre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Zed On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:29:29AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
If no one participates, then surely Debian shall fall by the
roadside.
Zed It's two weeks before finals. Give us a break. I recall a nice
Zed mess of proposals a
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severity 22308 fixed
Bug#22308: [PROPOSED] bug reports against policy
Severity set to `fixed'.
thanks
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Hi,
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam The list of current policy editors should be part of the
A nit: we do not have *any* policy editors. We have
maintainers of the debian policy package. The maintainers have no
control over content. Editor implies editorial
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severity 30148 wishlist
Bug#30148: list of current policy editors should be public
Severity set to `wishlist'.
retitle 30148 [PROPOSED]: List of current policy package maintainers should
be public
Bug#30148: list of current policy editors should be
On 28 Nov 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Since /etc/aliases is not a conf file belonging to any package
whatsoever, sectiosn 4.7 and 5.5 are not in conflict. I am closing
this report.
Please, read carefully the bug report. Policy says:
A package may not modify a configuration file of
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severity 29408 wishlist
Bug#29408: Old FSSTND in debian-policy package
Severity set to `wishlist'.
severity 30122 wishlist
Bug#30122: [PROPOSED] Fix bad advice about conffile management
Severity set to `wishlist'.
retitle 29408 [PROPOSED] Update the
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
A while ago someone (Santiago iirc) filed a bugreport about packages
depending on other packages with a lower priority. This made me
wonder about allowed relations between packages. Reading the policy
document does not give any explicit demands.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oliver Elphick writes:
We need a database keyed on country code, that will contain flags
for certain conditions. The ones I can think of at present are
no import: (Germany - certain games)
no export: (USA - encryption)
no use:(France, Russia -
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
See my other mail to this list -- this is what release quite
happily does, and its man page doesn't say anything about it
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