On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:17:19PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
Let A and B both be packages that provide virtual package C. A is the
default C in Debian, and is therefore Priority: important. A depends
on E and F, which must be Priority: important as well, as required by
current Policy.
Now
Hi,
Rene Engelhard wrote:
x-www-browser isn't listed in virtual-packages-list, though. Maybe it
should be added. Would make sense IMHO. [ To be consequent,
text-www-browser would then make sense, too ...]
[...]
So is there a consensus to mass-file bugs to let all Browsers Provide:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 04:40:23PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
[ Cc: ing debian-policy wrt virtual-packages-list ]
Hi,
We want to suggest Browsers for X (those providing the x-www-browser
alternative):
IMHO, suggesting a console program from an X program makes no sense -
We are not
Hi,
Bill Allombert wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 04:40:23PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
[ Cc: ing debian-policy wrt virtual-packages-list ]
Hi,
We want to suggest Browsers for X (those providing the x-www-browser
alternative):
IMHO, suggesting a console program from an X
Hi,
Rene Engelhard wrote:
I am not sure I like #172436.
Hmm. I am beginning to like it
Grüße/Regards,
René
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Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Current policy says a controlling terminal is guaranteed to be
available in the maintainer scripts. This is simply not true, for
dpkg will happily run without one - which makes all scripts that
make explicit use of /dev/tty (as policy recommends)
Op vr 19-12-2003, om 16:45 schreef Tore Anderson:
Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Current policy says a controlling terminal is guaranteed to be
available in the maintainer scripts. This is simply not true, for
dpkg will happily run without one - which makes all scripts that
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:45:06PM +0100, Tore Anderson wrote:
Current policy says a controlling terminal is guaranteed to be
available in the maintainer scripts. This is simply not true, for
dpkg will happily run without one [...]
That's not strictly true. Dpkg calls maintainer
* Wouter Verhelst
That said, I don't think it's a good idea to do this. Many packages
depend on having a controlling tty available, and aren't buggy since
current policy allows it. Changing that would make all those packages
instantly buggy, which should be avoided if at all possible (and
* Tore Anderson
Current policy says a controlling terminal is guaranteed to be
available in the maintainer scripts. This is simply not true, for
dpkg will happily run without one [...]
* Chris Waters
That's not strictly true. Dpkg calls maintainer scripts, and
maintainer scripts
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:50:46PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
That said, I don't think it's a good idea to do this. Many packages
depend on having a controlling tty available, and aren't buggy since
current policy allows it. Changing that would make all those packages
instantly buggy, which
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