Bug#160248: section 13.3 unnecessarily obscure

2002-09-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: debian-policy The intent of the last paragraph in section 13.3 is that you should be able to delete /usr/share/doc safely, but that's not quite what it says. need to install the instructions for building and installing the package, of course! - Files in

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-09 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robbe Is Unicode manadatory now? (You somewhat incorrecly used Robbe U+2010, hyphen, in that mail.) Mandatory? mandated by whom? Obviously MIME is mandatory for participation in policy process I infer from your Fix your MUA comment. But

Re: [RFC] *-rc.d - rc.d-* transition

2002-09-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 08 Sep 2002, Chris Waters wrote: First, I'd like to say that I'm fairly neutral in this debate. None So am I, actually. I am proposing it because I said at debconf2 that I would, after the people there got convinced it would be a good thing by whomever proposed it. 1. Since we'll be

Re: [RFC] *-rc.d - rc.d-* transition

2002-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 07:20:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I dislike the rc.d anywhere in the name on general aestetic principles, but Chris's arguments about the update- prefix are persuasive to me. I'd much rather see the rc.d name dropped where possible for init, so we'd have invoke-init,

Bug#160248: section 13.3 unnecessarily obscure

2002-09-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:20:14PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: + The system administrator should be able to delete files in + `/usr/share/doc' without causing any programs to break. A package + should not directly reference files that it places there. Sure it should: ``further