Re: Moving Policy to Docbook

2001-06-22 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anyone has done any programmatic transforms from debiandoc to DocBook, this is a good time to speak up and be heard. I've not actually done that particular transform, or anything as big, but I've done some trivial transforms using XSLT. You'll

Re: [PROPOSAL] Allowing crypto in the main archive

2001-01-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Sam TH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Texas legal profession got pissed, since Nolo was taking their clients, and sued. There were also allegations that Nolo was including out-of-date materials, forms, etc. IANAL, but my wife has a JD... Mike.

Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

1999-12-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a nice simple solution that would make our lives infinitely easier in lots of other ways: Build outside the source tree! This is how autoconf is intended to be used and it makes things a lot easier to manage. Sure. Lots of packages do just this.

[PROPOSAL] require unversioned -dev packages (was Re: library package policy for small gnome packages)

1999-09-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm going to take over gnome-print from Vincent and I was wondering whether to convert it into a proper libgnomeprint2 and -dev package. The package is quite small. We've got separate packages for a lot of small libraries in gnome---libzvt, libgnome,

Re: Where should IMAP look for mail folders?

1999-03-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #33780 arises from the fact that pine understands this slurp the incoming mail into a file called mbox behavior, and if a file called $HOME/mbox exists, will dutifully copy any mail it finds in the system inbox into this file and manipulate it just the

Re: Bug#30036: debian-policy could include emacs policy

1998-11-27 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the emacsen sub policy sufficiently stabilized that it can become a bona fide policy document, and thus get greater exposure? We've got, what, at least ten or twelve packages using it. I'd say that if it's not stabilized, we have a

Re: debiandoc-sgml vs. docbook

1998-11-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lets separate, if we can, the DTD from the processing structure. There's no reason why we could not build a DSSSL file make nice PS, PDF, TeX, RTF from the Debiandoc DTD. In fact, it's my project for a rainy day... I intended my observation as more

debiandoc-sgml vs. docbook

1998-11-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This does bring up one thing, though---can we look at transitioning away from debiandoc-sgml to something more standard, like docbook? The backends in the latest sgmltools are supposed to be much more sophisticated and produce better output than the

Re: Mangling other people's code

1998-11-22 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) writes: Does the policy list think it would be a good idea to add a piece to the policy manual asking maintainers who inherit a package and uploaders of NMU's not to change the layout, structure or style of the source code unless it is really necessary ? I

Re: shlibs in binary packages allowed at all or no?

1998-07-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 07:54:31PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 02:16:59PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote: Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You have libpkg, it is

Re: RFC: Emacs add-on packages and make.

1998-04-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you install xemacs20, and then bbdb, and then emacs20, you'll only have bbdb compiled for xemacs20 and not for emacs20 It shouldn't work this way. Are you just saying that this is a bug

Re: RFC: Emacs add-on packages and make.

1998-04-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAICT it fails to achieve the most important likely goal of such a policy, namely that the (non)-existence of .elc files for a particular flavour of emacs doesn't depend on the installation order. If you mean: If you install xemacs20, and then bbdb,