On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:23:03PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Siggy Brentrup's letter:
> > There should be one for the main distribution. Assume I want to go
> > into the CD business providing support for packages in the main
> > dist. No major problem
[about a flat-file installation tool].
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:58:02PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> If you make such a tool and people start to use it on a large scale, you'd
> better be sure you get the package dependencies right.
The context was data files which have no particular adminis
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Exactly. A better designed package manager would support modular package
> format handling. then we could simply do (let's call the package manager
> hpm for now):
>
> hpm -i blacksteel.etheme instead dpkg -i etheme-blacksteel.deb
> hpm -i realvid
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 01:12:06AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
>
> Alternate question: why do we even have to package up flat text files?
> Why can't we just import them into debian in some regular manner? [I can
> see that naming convention is important, but are there any other issues
> beyond tha
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
>
> Why even involve debhelper? At least in the case of the Project Gutenberg
> files some of which I have, they are just long ascii files so the rules
> file could just stick them into (for example) /usr/share/doc/etexts call
> doc-base and be done w
On Sep 27, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Maybe it's time to fork off an independent documentation project?
I agree. I'd like to see another organization supported by SPI packaging
things like Project Gutemberg books and so on.
--
ciao,
Marco
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 12:05:37AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> Why even involve debhelper? At least in the case of the Project Gutenberg
> files some of which I have, they are just long ascii files so the rules
> file could just stick them into (for example) /usr/share/doc/etexts call
> doc-ba
On 28 Sep 1999, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> More serious:
>
Hahaha.
> customer: I found a typo ...
> |I don't understand that ancient word (very likely in over here)
> | Luther's bible says ... but what you sold me is completely
> different.
>
> |Why do you incl
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:46:39AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > Is it really censoring to keep all non-technical packages out of main?
> > I don't say don't package it nor don't make it available.
>
> Maybe it's time to fork off an independent documen
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> if it's free and it's packaged then we accept it into the dist in the
> location defined by policy - at the moment, that's debian main. we
> probably should, as has been discussed before, have an etexts and a data
> section for this kind of stuff
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:46:19AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > it's irrelevant whether other debian developers or users agree with me
> > or disagree with me about the relative utility of these two packages.
> > by not censoring packages, by refusing
ote:
> Date: 27 Sep 1999 11:46:39 +0200
> From: Siggy Brentrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Censoring :) (was: Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)
> Resent-Date: 27 Sep 1999 11:11:42 -
> Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Resent-
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:46:39AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > Is it really censoring to keep all non-technical packages out of main?
> > I don't say don't package it nor don't make it available.
>
> Maybe it's time to fork off an independent docume
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:46:39AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> Is it really censoring to keep all non-technical packages out of main?
> I don't say don't package it nor don't make it available.
Maybe it's time to fork off an independent documentation project?
We'd need to provide them a stable
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:23:03PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Siggy Brentrup's letter:
> > There should be one for the main distribution. Assume I want to go
> > into the CD business providing support for packages in the main
> > dist.
> >
> > The way
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Siggy Brentrup's letter:
> There should be one for the main distribution. Assume I want to go
> into the CD business providing support for packages in the main
> dist. No major problem with most of the packages, but I am not willing
> to support packages with ph
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Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> it's irrelevant whether other debian developers or users agree with me
> or disagree with me about the relative utility of the
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