Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:16:24AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: I guess there are two conflicting desires here: (1) The Acting Release Manager's desire to have it clear what constitutes an RC bug. (2) Developers' desires to know what must be done in all cases and what ought to be

Re: Policy reformatting

2001-04-16 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 10:45:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I have just started moving policy over to docbook 4.2, as discussed a while back. As soon as I have made enough of a head start, I'll check it into CVS under policy-new.sgml. No normative changes to policy shall

Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:49:14AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: Did the ftpadmins ever consider the possibility of running lintian on packages before allowing them into unstable? I vaguely remember that being discussed in the past. (speaking from my experience as ftpadmin in the past) They

Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:49:14AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:16:24AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: I guess there are two conflicting desires here: (1) The Acting Release Manager's desire to have it clear what constitutes an RC bug. (2) Developers' desires to

Re: Bug#94114: mesag3-glide2: mesag3-glide2 needs MESA_GLX_FX

2001-04-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:08:27PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: There is no alternative to setting the environment variable MESA_GLX_FX. Yes. What do you suggest I do? If you read README.3DFX you'll see there's no reasonable

Bug#83977: PROPOSED] include Perl Policy

2001-04-16 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Final revision of the Perl policy. Full text at: http://people.debian.org/~bod/perl-policy/perl-policy.sgml This version incorporates the following major changes: * Indicate that the INSTALLDIRS option may be passed via the PERL_MM_OPT environment variable (Ben Gertzfield). *

Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:38:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:49:14AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:16:24AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: I guess there are two conflicting desires here: (1) The Acting Release Manager's desire to have it

Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Seth Arnold
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [010416 05:54]: Does that possibility satisfy everyone: - MUST and SHOULD change to the universally-recognised IETF meanings It's still not clear why this would be a Good Thing. The only real reason I've seen is that it's confusing people (and then,

Re: Bug#94114: mesag3-glide2: mesag3-glide2 needs MESA_GLX_FX

2001-04-16 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:16:34PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: I never said that's not possible. I'm just saying this is not the way *this* library works. Since I don't use this particular feature of Mesa, I don't know why this is so. If you read README.3DFX you'll note this is

Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)

2001-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:05:02PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote: * Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [010416 05:54]: Does that possibility satisfy everyone: - MUST and SHOULD change to the universally-recognised IETF meanings It's still not clear why this would be a Good Thing. I like