Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
If we were starting from scratch, I agree, but I'm not sure how to
phrase that.
Here's what I currently have, which has one second from Julien and
previous seconds from Manoj and Raphaël for previous versions of the
wording. I'd welcome any additional
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes:
I think the cost of moving window managers out of /etc/X11 far
outweight the benefit. However the same rationale about moving
programs out of /usr/bin/X11, /usr/lib/X11, etc. apply here. If one
day we move to X12, /etc/X11 will
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 23:54:13 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes:
Ping Russ? :)
Sorry about the long delay on the rewrite of the X installation
directory section. Here's proposed rewording for the whole section.
How does this look to everyone?
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes:
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [090620 23:55]:
I'm not sure either. This was already in Policy prior to this round
of changes, of course, but maybe since we're revising this section
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes:
My comment would be that we should avoid implying that putting window
managers config file in /etc/X11/.../ is a good idea... But of course
it is not the time for policy to forbid it either.
Hm. Do you feel that way just for new
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:43:57AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes:
My comment would be that we should avoid implying that putting window
managers config file in /etc/X11/.../ is a good idea... But of course
it is not the time for policy
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes:
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [090620 23:55]:
I'm not sure either. This was already in Policy prior to this round
of changes, of course, but maybe since we're revising this section
anyway, this is the time to remove it. To remove it, I'd drop the
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes:
Ping Russ? :)
Sorry about the long delay on the rewrite of the X installation
directory section. Here's proposed rewording for the whole section.
How does this look to everyone?
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 43cf4d6..f0e2c6e 100644
---
On Sat, Jun 20 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
Sorry about the long delay on the rewrite of the X installation
directory section. Here's proposed rewording for the whole section.
How does this look to everyone?
I was wondering if is it OK not to have a transition period for
this change,
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
+ Configuration files for window managers and display managers
+ should be placed in a subdirectory of file/etc/X11//file
+ corresponding to the package name due to these programs' tight
+ integration with the mechanisms
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
+Configuration files for window managers and display managers
+should be placed in a subdirectory of file/etc/X11//file
+corresponding to the package name due to these programs' tight
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 05:08:38 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
how about:
p
The installation of files into subdirectories of
file/usr/X11R6//fileis now prohibited. Include files
should be installed into file/usr/include/X11//file. For
files that
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 05:08:38 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
how about:
p
The installation of files into subdirectories of
file/usr/X11R6//fileis now prohibited. Include files
should be installed into
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 05:08:38 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
how about:
p
The installation of files into subdirectories of
file/usr/X11R6//fileis now prohibited. Include files
Missing space before the “is”.
should be installed into
At 1238611430 time_t, Julien Cristau wrote:
I don't know whether to remove just this part, or everything relating to
X11R6. Opinions?
Seconded.
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Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes:
I don't know whether to remove just this part, or everything relating to
X11R6. Opinions?
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 300d7f7..5cd463e 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8619,22 +8619,8 @@ name [varsyshostname/var]:
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 19:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I was about to apply this, but then realized that it leaves the following,
which seems a bit odd and self-contradictory:
p
The installation of files into subdirectories
of
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:52:25AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes:
I don't know whether to remove just this part, or everything relating to
X11R6. Opinions?
Let's leave the explicit prohibition on X11R6 for at least one more
release. imake used to
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes:
I don't know whether to remove just this part, or everything relating to
X11R6. Opinions?
Let's leave the explicit prohibition on X11R6 for at least one more
release. imake used to be really common and one still occasionally runs
into software that
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.1.0
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I don't know whether to remove just this part, or everything relating to
X11R6. Opinions?
Cheers,
Julien
From: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:29:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Drop requirement to
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