On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 at 02:29, Chris Lawrence wrote about Re: Editor and...:
That and the local modification business is a bit goofy; perhaps
they should consider a you modify it, you change the name policy
(i.e. you can't call a modified Pine UW Pine or UW PC/Pine). That
would at least edge
Hi,
Chris == Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chris Note that the common element of both proposals is that
Chris someone who has non-free packages in her package list will
Chris see them, and someone who doesn't won't. This really seems
Chris like the best approach all 'round.
Chris
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
what do we gain by making a symlink to undocumented(7),
The symlink is there for information to the user, that he doesn't need
to provide a bug report, because this bug is already known (that's the
intension of undocumented(7), as you can read
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sometimes I check for documentation by doing a dpkg -L. I see a manpage
for a certain command and do a man xxx. Result is a undocumented
manpage. Very irritating. It would have saved some effort if there simply
were no manpage.
You know, actually,
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
| 6.1. Manual pages
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| You must install manual pages in `nroff' source form, in appropriate
| places under `/usr/man'. You should only use sections 1 to 9 (see the
| FSSTND for more details). You must
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Christoph Lameter wrote:
The symlink is there for information to the user, that he doesn't
need to provide a bug report, because this bug is already known
(that's the intension of undocumented(7), as you can read in this
man page as well as in the policy.
The
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
[get rid of the symlinks to undocumented(7)]
OTOH, changing this would affect a lot of packages.
But this shouldn't be a big problem, because removing the symlinks can
be done in some seconds. And lintian can be used to inform the
maintainers, that
Francesco Tapparo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The documentation is a better place for this sort of things.
From the packaging manual:
`Suggests'
This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with
one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging
Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...
Yes, I argued exactly the same point when this thread came up before
(on -private, where it never belonged, imo). But note that both of
the proposals I mentioned would solve this quite handily -- the
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 14-Jun-99, 02:06 (CDT), Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 at 12:22, Joseph Carter wrote about Re: Editor and...:
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s execfail
exec ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-editor}} $@
Yes, I saw this. But I didn't
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Agreed. And again, this is not personal, just Debian must retain control.
Any
interested in being a part of this can simply apply for maintainer status.
If that where so easy
Is there any automatik mechanism to
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
So what about simply removing the paragraph about undocumented.7 from
the policy and change lintian to flame if there is only this symlink?
Seconded.
On 16-Jun-99, 07:08 (CDT), Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's so hard about that? If
you want pico to be the system wide default (god forbid), set EDITOR in
/etc/profile and /etc/cshrc (or whatever it's called).
NO, hands of
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Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 16-Jun-99, 07:08 (CDT), Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's so hard about that? If
you want pico to be the system wide default (god
Chris Leishman wrote:
1) Is it policy that a package must contain a DEBIAN/md5sums file?
(not all do). Should it be?
2) Is it possible to create an easily accessable copy of these md5sums
on the debian servers (similar to package lists, or perhaps as a .md5sums
to go
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