Package: debian-policy
Version: N/A
Severity: wishlist
I'm currently packaging the foomatic printer/driver database and print
system. The database is written in XML and is used to create specialized
printer description files that are needed by the included print filter
backends.
The PPD files ar
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:48:52AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:56:51AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > > And is the overwhelming majority of interactive scripts that _do_ use
> > > debconf already not a huge enough amount?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:19:42AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > aj, who'll be proposing the MUST/SHOULD nonsense be removed from the hands
> > of policy when he gets some free time again
> I play the evil maintainer who does everything with his packa
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:54:41AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:58:26PM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> > > The lack of automatic installation is the reason why I don't install
> > > Debian any more for my customers.
> > Oh,
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
>...
> aj, who'll be proposing the MUST/SHOULD nonsense be removed from the hands
> of policy when he gets some free time again
Let's play the "evil maintainer game":
I play the evil maintainer who does everything with his packages that
isn't forbidd
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:57:26AM +, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > And is the overwhelming majority of interactive scripts that _do_ use
> > > debconf already not a huge enough amount?
> > No, it's not "current practice" to use debconf when a bunch of important
> > packages specifically don't use it
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:16:15PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > - a package has it's documentation in /usr/doc
> > - the maintainer gets a patch how to change it
> > - the maintainer refuses the patch "I want to have the documentation in
> > /usr/doc.
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:58:26PM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> > The lack of automatic installation is the reason why I don't install
> > Debian any more for my customers.
>
> Oh, and to clarify: I completely agree. This is, IMO, the biggest missin
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:48:52AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:56:51AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > And is the overwhelming majority of interactive scripts that _do_ use
> > debconf already not a huge enough amount?
> No, it's not "current practice" to use debconf
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