Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

1999-07-04 Thread Martin Mitchell
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roland My intension was to get rid of these undocumented.7 symlinks, because Roland they are quite useless because of the following points: Roland a) dpkg -L package shows that there is a man page, but there is only Rolandthis useless

Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

1999-07-04 Thread Martin Mitchell
Roland Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But this doesn't solve the other problem: dpkg -L shows these symlinks as real man pages. This is annoying at least for me... dpkg is not a documentation browser, it is a package manager. It really doesn't matter if dpkg -L shows symlinks or not,

Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

1999-07-04 Thread Jim Lynch
Date:04 Jul 1999 12:26:55 +1000 To: Roland Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org From:Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks Roland Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But

Re: menu, translate, i18n

1999-07-04 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
The debian menus currently currently only exist in english, en da's niet goed (that's not good, Ott nem jó, Tio malbonas). Mi opinas kio estas bonan ideo...

Re: menu, translate, i18n

1999-07-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 03, joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the translating of menus comes up, gnome/kde automatically also come up as they already have translations. So, why not use those? Well, for the above mentioned reasons: cross-package communication is pour to say the least in debian,

Bug#40706: usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc

1999-07-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 06:44:57PM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: This is principally the right way (according to FHS), but we cannot recompile all packages now but we need a smooth way from one directory to the other. Why do we need a smooth way? Some packages (including many of mine at

Bug#40706: usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc

1999-07-04 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Sat, 03 Jul 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote: This is principally the right way (according to FHS), but we cannot recompile all packages now but we need a smooth way from one directory to the other. Why do we need a smooth way? Because Debian is the distribution, where the user can

Re: Some comments on policy 3.0.0.0 proposal (1999-06-29)

1999-07-04 Thread Richard Braakman
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Nonono, non-US is grouped into main, contrib and non-free, which are divided into subsections. Basically you should consider ftp.debian.org and nonus.debian.org as two complete archives, each seperated into releases, sections and subsections. Not subsections, actually.

Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?

1999-07-04 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I'm going through my old bug reports, and I remembered people telling me /etc/rc.boot/ is obsolete. But I just went to look at the new policy (I assume 3.0.0.0 is the latest) and it has the same old stuff about /etc/rc.boot/ : (snip) 3.3.4 Boot-time initialization There is another directory,

Re: Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?

1999-07-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going through my old bug reports, and I remembered people telling me /etc/rc.boot/ is obsolete. But I just went to look at the new policy (I assume 3.0.0.0 is the latest) and it has the same old stuff about /etc/rc.boot/ :

Re: Some comments on policy 3.0.0.0 proposal (1999-06-29)

1999-07-04 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Richard Braakman wrote: Not subsections, actually. The non-us packages are still in one directory per section, and many just say non-US in their Section header. Aren't those packaged broken then? Wichert. --

Bug#40706: /usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc

1999-07-04 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.0.0.0 Severity: important debian-policy 3.0.0.0 is now out and mentions to use /usr/share/doc/package instead of /usr/doc/package. This is principally the right way (according to FHS), but we cannot recompile all packages now but we need a smooth way from one

Bug#40706: usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc

1999-07-04 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:27:01AM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: This is principally the right way (according to FHS), but we cannot recompile all packages now but we need a smooth way from one directory to the other. Why do we need a smooth way? Some packages (including many of mine at the