On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:58:26PM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
In my opinion now that we have debconf we should mandate its use by
policy.
No. We. Should. Not.
We will be guided by the needs of our users and the
free-software community. We will place their interests first in
our
As largely irrelevant data points, my 1955 edition of the Oxford
Universal, the 2nd edition of the Random House unabridged,
Webster's 3rd New International, and the 1952 New Century
dictionaries concur that dependancy is legitimate.
Webster's 2nd edition New International does not recognize it.
(Taking this off-line.)
Well, had you read through the note properly, you would have
noticed that Webster's 3rd does recognize it, while the 2nd
doesn't; it's a pretty safe bet that the 3rd came after the
2nd. :-)
IIRC, the 2nd was proscriptive, and the 3rd descriptive, with
many purists
break.
What is the intended policy?
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There's seemingly a broader issue here, too. I've come across an
entry in Sources (vlc) which swaps the version and architecture
components in a build-dep line:
Build-Depends: debhelper (=2.2.0),
xlibs-dev,
...
libasound2-dev [alpha arm hppa i386 ia64
is indexing, which is something
I've sorely missed when looking for information in Policy and the
DDR.
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At (time_t)1027974412 Wichert Akkerman wrote:
For each virtual package we should document
* a description of what it should be used for
* a complete description of the interface packages should provide if
that is relevant for that virtual package
Another potential documentation point
,
and the complete lack of problems to users of the software that
an upgrade to the real 4.2 would cause, how difficult would it be
to get the package bumped to 4.2 in the first update to stable?
Are version upgrades in stable against policy or Policy?
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