Bug#403649: debian-policy: Should clarify package availability in postrm remove

2011-03-06 Thread Frank Küster
. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg Debian Developer (TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Informative addendum to policy clarifying dpkg/maintainer script interface

2009-10-21 Thread Frank Küster
missing, however, is any reference to debconf's config script. Isn't that called by dpkg, too? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#504880: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
# dpkg --unpack a # dpkg --purge a can be done without b present. And you do not need any --force option. Yes, I see. We'll have to make an upload of texlive-2007. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV

Bug#529771: debian-policy: section title about binary dependencies is missing Breaks

2009-05-22 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster fr...@debian.org wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.1.0 Severity: minor The section titled 7.2 Binary Dependencies - Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Enhances, Pre-Depends also deals with the new Breaks, therefore it should also be in the title. Well, of course

Bug#529771: debian-policy: section title about binary dependencies is missing Breaks

2009-05-21 Thread Frank Küster
no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.8.20 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg

Bug#528021: maintainer scripts put files in /usr/local/ (policy 9.1.2)

2009-05-20 Thread Frank Küster
a dir list. Actually, this needs to be fixed by rebuilding the packages against the proper tex-common version, but that will happen anyway. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#250202: debian/README.source file for packages with non-trivial source

2008-05-01 Thread Frank Küster
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The developer's reference describes in 6.7.8 Best practices for orig.tar.gz files how to document properly any changes that need to be done to the orig.tar.gz, and recommends the name README.Debian-source

Bug#250202: debian/README.source file for packages with non-trivial source

2008-04-29 Thread Frank Küster
of the developer's reference, whereas documenting the multiple binary package thing in that file is probably new. If we give examples, we should indeed use the most relevant ones. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#403391: debian-policy: scripts as configuration files: should vs. must

2008-04-08 Thread Frank Küster
with the RC bug policy which calls out all cron jobs and init scripts. Yes, of course. Just because some helper script is a quick hack and contains a LOGDIR=/var/log/foo statement in it doesn't mean that it *must* be put into /etc/... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: The case for rewriting the Policy document (Debconf7 proposal)

2007-07-15 Thread Frank Küster
, an additional attribute/field could be an implementation suggestion. This could just point to dh_foo, or to a more complex setup, and give someone who rarely touches a package in that topic area an easy means to conform to policy. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Bug#425523: debian-policy: Should describe error-unwind in case dpkg-deb -x fails

2007-05-22 Thread Frank Küster
') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian

Bug#403649: debian-policy: Should clarify package availability in postrm remove

2006-12-18 Thread Frank Küster
PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Bug#403391: debian-policy: scripts as configuration files: should vs. must

2006-12-16 Thread Frank Küster
policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-25 Thread Frank Küster
, but also the release-policy (if not in meaning then at least in wording and clearness), but we can't expect this to happen right now. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Bug#391240: debian-policy: Please elaborate on cleaning up files outside the build dir

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
. /p p -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Frank Küster Single

Bug#391240: debian-policy: Please elaborate on cleaning up files outside the build dir

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:58:48PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Therefore, I suggest the following patch to the Debian policy: --- debian-policy-3.7.2.2/policy.sgml.orig 2006-10-05 18:52:02.0 +0200 +++ debian-policy-3.7.2.2/policy.sgml

Re: Bug#367531 closed by Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org (Bug#367531: fixed in debian-policy 3.7.2.2)

2006-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
lost again somehow. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Are packages allowed to ship files in /srv?

2006-07-23 Thread Frank Küster
look at some configuration file, thus learn the structure of /srv that the local admin chose, and create files there. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Bug#379001: debian-policy: update-rc.d overrides sysadmins wishes

2006-07-20 Thread Frank Küster
at least one link | remaining, without having their configuration overwritten. ` I think this is a non-bug. It's rather a FAQ on the users' lists. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-27 Thread Frank Küster
and authoritative, is correct. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-27 Thread Frank Küster
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 June 2006 12:19, Frank Küster wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sub-policy documents either can be part of this debian-policy document or referenced to by this paragraph. They are maintained by their authors

Policy changing procedures (was: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed)

2006-06-27 Thread Frank Küster
/doc/debian-policy/policy-process.* respectively ? I assume this is an oversight. Maybe we should file a bug that these files be removed. Frank Küster writes (Official policy process (was: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed)): Is this really true

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
consistent (and tested). At some point, they can apply to become part of the policy, with all the side effects like must-clauses being RC etc. But that's only the end, and the sub-policy document must exist prior to this, at some other place. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 26 June 2006 17:37, Frank Küster wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.1 Severity: wishlist The current paragraphs of #1.4, #11.9, #11.9 show perl-policy as a part debian-policy package

Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

2006-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster writes (Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed): For a document called Debian-Foo-Policy to be part of The Debian Policy it must be included in 1.4. If it is not included there, it is not mandatory

Official policy process (was: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed)

2006-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster writes (Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed): I tend to disagree. A sub-policy should only be part of the debian-policy package, and installed in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy, if it is accepted

Re: Including more licenses in 12.5

2006-06-20 Thread Frank Küster
-- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Bug#370471: use of invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $? in prerm scripts

2006-06-06 Thread Frank Küster
how the description of restart could be worded better to make #224937 a violation of a must-clause? It's annoying when maintainers insist on a clearly not-intended interpretation of policy. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ

Re: [SPAM?]: Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section

2006-05-22 Thread Frank Küster
, xdrawchem polyxmass, xdrawchem, gausssum, kalzium Mathematics [was:Math] Mathematics-related software. gcalctool, snapea, xeukleides xmaxima? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Bug#368055: debian-policy: Add a section about 'transitional packages'

2006-05-19 Thread Frank Küster
will use A in the future. It can safely be removed. How can that work? If B Depends: A, but A Conflicts: B, won't they just refuse to be upgraded? I think A needs to declare Conflicts: B ( = $last_nontransitional_version ). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Re: [SPAM?]: Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section

2006-05-18 Thread Frank Küster
maintainer to decide. I am not familiar with any of those, so that was only a rough guess. Yes, but it makes the list of packages suitable for Data analysis smaller; I'm not sure we need it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich

Re: [SPAM?]: Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section

2006-05-17 Thread Frank Küster
to be similar. Physics [5] gdpc- visualiser of molecular dynamic simulations And this is also very near - MD simulations are based on physics, but are performed to answer chemical or, I guess more frequently, macromolecular=biological questions. Regards, Frank -- Frank

Re: Bug#189422: Hijacking bugs

2006-05-17 Thread Frank Küster
with that. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Bug#367531: debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms

2006-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
(i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-05-15 Thread Frank Küster
a cryptic NCBI and think WTF is that?. Yes, well, they will. But I don't see any alternative. NCBI is the name of the institution and the software collection. Nobody has proposed an alternative, and I think that's because there isn't a good one. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule

Re: Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-04-11 Thread Frank Küster
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ This. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX) pgpMUxIiUpoxK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question regarding policy wording

2006-04-06 Thread Frank Küster
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is common practice that /usr/share/doc/package/ is a symlink to /usr/share/doc/other_package/ if package Depends: other_package. Therefore I don't see why the copyright file couldn't be a symlink to /usr/share

Re: Question regarding policy wording

2006-04-06 Thread Frank Küster
a symlink by a directory. That's not a very strong argument IMO. Anyway, I see that my idea isn't a good one, and I'll drop that proposal. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Question regarding policy wording

2006-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
/usr/share/doc/package/ directory a symlink. Should I create a patch for the wording that allows symlinks to other copyright files from the same source package? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: [bug] references to dpkg-shlibdeps should be dh_shlibdeps

2006-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
dpkg-shlibdeps. Since using dh_* isn't mandatory at all, there's no need to mention it in the policy. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Debian Menu policy leads to confusion

2006-03-31 Thread Frank Küster
, or Web Feed distribution? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Debian Menu policy leads to confusion

2006-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
... Being unfamiliar with Newsfeed and podcast agregators, I also don't get the difference between the and notification applets. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Debian Menu policy leads to confusion

2006-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
-f doctor etc. ;-) Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: policy on binary/package naming convention

2006-01-13 Thread Frank Küster
) etc.pp. :-), Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Debian Menu policy leads to confusion

2005-12-20 Thread Frank Küster
Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster wrote: Where would timetable managers (KOrganizer...), group task trackers, etc. be sorted, both one-person-standalone, group-wise-networked, and connect-me-to-my-palm, or allinone? Office? Fine. I guess dictionaries, thesauri etc

Re: Debian Menu policy leads to confusion

2005-12-18 Thread Frank Küster
sounds much like mysql, M$Access and all that stuff I never use and know nothing about, and I think we would serve our users to give the section a more end user friendly name. What about data management? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Debian Menu policy leads to confusion

2005-12-11 Thread Frank Küster
Apps/Science into Apps/Science/{natural,social and humanities}, we could also add Apps/Science/Tools for bibliography things and such. And, maybe related but not strictly connected to Science, how about Software to visualize processes and structures, like mind mapping? Regards, Frank -- Frank

Re: Debian Menu policy leads to confusion

2005-12-11 Thread Frank Küster
would suggest putting such software in Databases. Yes, that's a good suggestion. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Procedure to add sub-policies

2005-07-27 Thread Frank Küster
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj) wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:44:28 +0200, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, is there an established procedure on adding sub-policies (like the existing menu or mime sub-policies)? Should they live in one of the involved packages

Procedure to add sub-policies

2005-07-26 Thread Frank Küster
request to change the Policy? I am asking because we have drafted a Debian TeX Policy document¹ and are thinking how to proceed. Regards, Frank ¹if you've got a TeX-related package and are interested, have a look at http://people.debian.org/~frank/Debian-TeX-Policy/ -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Küster
X-Posting to -policy, because this might be a bug in Policy. I'm not subscribed to -policy, please Cc me unless you keep -devel in. Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joel Aelwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:32:19AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Hi, what

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do others also think this is an error in policy? Nobody would object if I raise severity of such a bug and address it in an NMU (which I'm going to do for a different RC bug, anyway)? I can answer the second question myself: According to http