reassign 123074 debian-policy
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Matthias Klose wrote:
Package: base-files
Currently the GFDL cannot be found in common-licenses. Not sure where
to get this license ... Add it?
Attached are the GPL and the GFDL in nroff
-man format (from the gcc HEAD sources). gcc
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reassign 123074 debian-policy
Bug#123074: adding gfdl(7) and gpl(7)
Bug reassigned from package `base-files' to `debian-policy'.
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:58:26PM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
In my opinion now that we have debconf we should mandate its use by
policy.
No. We. Should. Not.
We will be guided by the needs of our users and the
free-software community. We will place their interests first in
our
And Yay! Woo! I get to do this stupid rant, yet again.
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:28:51PM -0500, John R. Daily wrote:
We will be guided by the needs of our users and the
free-software community. We will place their interests first in
our priorities. We will support the needs of our users for
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, John R. Daily wrote:
Possible reasons for mandating policy: insuring interoperability,
consistency, functionality, and desire to be a fascist jerk.
1) insuring interoperability
If a package doesn't work with the interface another package provides, it's
still a bug.
As largely irrelevant data points, my 1955 edition of the Oxford
Universal, the 2nd edition of the Random House unabridged,
Webster's 3rd New International, and the 1952 New Century
dictionaries concur that dependancy is legitimate.
Webster's 2nd edition New International does not recognize it.
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