Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-31 Thread Julian Gilbey
I've just had what I think is a really useful idea On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:13:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: __Debian Standards Document__ This makes a lot of sense as a separate, technical, document, as you say. But I think that (at least a part of) the sections which I asterisk

Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:33:44AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:13:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: __Debian Standards Document__ dpkg: * version format * maintainer scripts are run when and under what circumstances Both of these are irrelevant to just

Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-31 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:08:03 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Version number comparison is checked with 'dpkg --compare-versions', and the format is checked automatically by various tools. I've never found it necessary to look at the details of either except when I'm poking at

Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:06:55AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:08:03 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Version number comparison is checked with 'dpkg --compare-versions', and the format is checked automatically by various tools. I've never found it

Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-31 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:08:03AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:33:44AM -0600, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:13:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: __Debian Standards Document__ dpkg: * version format * maintainer scripts are run