On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 08:07:59PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
Add the following section 5.4 as the next to last paragraph (i.e. before
the one beginning Since the Debian base system...).
A program may also use the VISUAL environment variable determine
the user's choice of editor. If
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:57:36AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Ok, I accept the amendment into my proposal. The new proposed text:
If the upstream changelog file is HTML formatted, it must be accessible as
`/usr/doc/package/changelog.html.gz'. A plain text version of the
changelog must be
seconded.
David Frey
To prevent having to use epochs for every new upstream version, the
version number should be changed to the following format in such
cases: `19960501', `19961224'.
...
I am now looking for seconds for this proposal.
Seconded.
David
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On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 01:58:12AM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
dpkg-shlibdeps debian/tmp/usr/{bin,sbin}/*
..
The last line should be changed to:
dpkg-shlibdeps debian/tmp/usr/bin/* debian/tmp/usr/sbin/*
to eliminate the bashism
Seconded.
David
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 02:05:14AM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
This has been already presented to the list and had been accepted, but
Christian did not have time to actually edit the file.
Seconded.
David
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 02:14:06AM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Currently, the packaging manual only says that the `build' target of
debian/rules has to be non-interactive. Since an interactive
debian/rules script makes it impossible to autocompile that package
and also makes
mentioned in debian-devel a
while back, or even work with lpr/lprng people to have a stdized way
to hack the configs.
I asked the lpr Maintainer, but he is at the moment to busy... :(
David
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On Fri, Dec 19 1997 20:37 GMT Adrian Bridgett writes:
What about dpkg-divert? Sure - some people do edit /etc/init.d/whatever
(particularly network), however there are many files in /etc/init.d that
the vast majority of people won't change. If some behaviour needs to change,
they may not
On Sat, Dec 20 1997 16:17 +1100 Hamish Moffatt writes:
On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 01:31:38PM -0500, Scott Ellis wrote:
And the instant someone provides us with free software equivilant to ssh
or pgp, we'll move to use it. We need the functionality, unfortunatly
sometimes you have to use what
Hello collegues,
I don't know whether you already knew RFC2119, but it discusses the
official use of `should', `may', `must' and so on. It is an enlighting
document.
We shall adapt our policy requirements to match the document, IMO.
David
PS: must | shall = required,
must not | shall not
On Fri, Nov 14 1997 23:02 EST Dale Scheetz writes:
== begin proposal
[...]
Base ae 20
ed 10
ed should definitely have a higher priority than ae.
David
I've read the thing now and it makes sense. I'm not sure that share
is the best name since all of /usr is designed to be shared, but a bit
late for that now.
from the FHS:
/usr
|
[...]
+-share Architecture-independent data
This means, that /usr/share can be shared among architectures
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