On 14-Jan-99, 08:03 (CST), Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Santiago Vila writes (Bug#29770: Policy contradicts itself about
/etc/aliases):
...
Policy says:
A package may not modify a configuration file of another package.
Why don't we change this to:
A package may not
Santiago Vila wrote:
I think this is an absolutely dreadful idea.
Technical decisions should be made by the relevant experts, according
to their own views, and matching the code that they have written or
plan to write.
So, in this example, the menu policy should remain with the
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reassign 30897 debian-policy
Bug#30897: debiandoc-sgml: debiandoc2xxx does not work
Bug reassigned from package `debiandoc-sgml' to `debian-policy'.
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I suggest these changes:
--- packaging.sgml.orig Fri Jan 15 15:35:20 1999
+++ packaging.sgml Fri Jan 15 16:05:28 1999
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
This manual describes the technical aspects of creating Debian
binary packages (tt.deb/tt
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:37:30AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
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And, to put things in perspective: keeping track of those is trivial
compared to the effort that would be involved in doing a complete rewrite
of zip, to enable the use of that functionality as an official part
of Debian.
I
Hi,
Is the following correct:
* I report a wishlist bug against the debian-policy package, which contains
my proposal.
* I wait to get two seconders.
* Then the proposal is raised to severity normal, and the discussion period
begins. The proposal is turned in to an amendment.
* After the
Here are the promised files I forgot to attach. Sorry.
Marcus
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I second Adams proposal, that the list of current policy editors (or
debian-policy maintainers or however you'd like to call them) should be
public.
Marcus
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seconded.
David Frey
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