Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-11-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
Just going through some really old mails, when I stumbled upon this thread: On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:59:15PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: It says this: The system administrator will have the opportunity to customize runlevels by either running update-rc.d, by simply adding, moving, or

Re: Q about Build-Depends vs Build-Depends-Indep

2000-11-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 08:21:40PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 05:42:16PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: So how about modifying the wording to say: Build-Depends, Build-Conflicts The Build-Depends and Build-Conflicts fields describe binary

Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-11-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:22:02AM +1100, Brian May wrote: I can't help but think though that this indicates a bigger problem in our reliance on maintainer scripts - it is not possible to add new features without: - hard-coding the entire feature in the maintainer script AND/OR -

Bug#76028: section 4.7.4 is poorly worded

2000-11-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.2.1.0 [Just putting in the BTS] - Forwarded message from Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:07:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrew McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: section 4.7.4 is

Bug#66912: PROPOSAL] init script configuration variables

2000-11-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
I (very belatedly) second this proposal. There's one small change I would make though; see below. On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 03:03:10AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist There has been some discussion lately on debian-deval (and a bit on -policy) about init

Bug#72335: PROPOSED] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules

2000-11-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
reopen 72335 retitle 72335 [PROPOSED] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules thanks On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 05:27:49PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: There is a problem with the current build-time dependency system. The build-time dependency system separates

Bug#72949: PROPOSED] 00/10/02 Policy aspects of the packaging manual

2000-11-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:06:13AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Package: Debian-policy Version: 3.2.1.0 Severity: wishlist I propose that the following file be included in policy, and be referenced in the Policy manual. Subsequently the packagign manual package can be taken

Processed: Re: Bug#72335: [PROPOSED] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules

2000-11-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reopen 72335 Bug#72335: [WITHDRAWN] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules Bug reopened, originator not changed. retitle 72335 [PROPOSED] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules Bug#72335: [WITHDRAWN]

Bug#72335: PROPOSED] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for debian/rules

2000-11-01 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001031T195631+, Julian Gilbey wrote: So even though this languished for a month, I would like to reopen this proposal and second it. Okay. I hereby withdraw my earlier withdrawal of this proposal. It's open again. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] %

Re: Status of open topics -- comments?

2000-11-01 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:52:34PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: #60979: What /etc/init.d/xxx restart does? status: restart stops and starts the program, perhaps we need a start-rc.d script We now are waiting for code. Action:

Bug#66912: PROPOSAL] init script configuration variables

2000-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Julian Gilbey wrote: I (very belatedly) second this proposal. Thanks. I think I have enough seconds now, don't really remember. There's one small change I would make though; see below. + if [ -e /etc/default/bind ]; then I would change the test to [ -f /etc/default/bind ]. Why?

Re: RFC: initscript policy proposal

2000-11-01 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Oct-00, 21:03 (CST), Henrique M Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd prefer to get this whole invoke-rc.d deal into policy with an optional maybe-restart first to fix the worst mess. After it's in policy, any developer can propose changing maybe-restart to non-optional and we can have

Re: RFC: initscript policy proposal

2000-11-01 Thread Anthony Towns
Gah. Do we have to keep cross-posting threads to multiple lists? On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:03:17AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: + `update-rc.d' and the system administrator. Also, requests to restart a + service out of its

Re: RFC: draft sub-policy for kernel patches

2000-11-01 Thread Frank Belew
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:17:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi wrote a small draft for directives wrt packaging of kernel patches. I'd like to have comments on this. I attach the text version. An HTML version is available at

Re: RFC: draft sub-policy for kernel patches

2000-11-01 Thread Nick Holgate
3.2.1. `apply' telling `unpatch' the patch was applied -- This is usually done by creating a file named `APPLIED_patchname', which `unpatch' checks to know whether it has something to do, and which `apply' also checks to not

Re: RFC: draft sub-policy for kernel patches

2000-11-01 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:56:00PM +, Nick Holgate wrote: 3.2.1. `apply' telling `unpatch' the patch was applied -- This is usually done by creating a file named `APPLIED_patchname', which `unpatch' checks to know whether