Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chip, how did it come to be that you are so cool and Tom Christiansen > so...isn't? :) Isn't it obvious? Doses of MST3K that would make a normal man into a pile of quivering jelly. :-) Mike.

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: > But this does not change the fact that this has not been made policy. > Policy just talks about using symlinks during the transition phase. That was intentional, it was decided that mentioning release names in policy and making the document contingent upon which release we w

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > Please note that the current policy documents do not talk about woody, > > they just talk about using symlinks during the "transition". > > > > We may well drop the symlinks in woody if we decide to do so. After all, > > we agree th

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: > Please note that the current policy documents do not talk about woody, > they just talk about using symlinks during the "transition". > > We may well drop the symlinks in woody if we decide to do so. After all, > we agree that we will tell our users to look in /usr/share/doc

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > - In woody, /usr/share/doc will be used, and all packages will be updated > to use it. Packages will still provide /usr/doc links for backwards > compatability. Please note that the current policy documents do not talk about woody, they just talk about

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:10:34AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > Oh, you're entirely right. People _are_ too tied up in 'freedom' to > focus on the software. But that's because, as a body, the Debian > project is all about freedom, as _expressed_ in software (and other > things, too). > > You

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Franklin Belew wrote: > People seem to be too caught up in other people's "freedom" to help us > create the best distro with the least problems. Example: > /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc transition voted to be held because potato was > supposed to freeze back in november. > Freeze got delayed, and 4+

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-30 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Franklin Belew: > Hi, you may know me from such irc channels as #debian and #debian-devel > as Myth. I'm Troy McClure! Er, no, that's not right. > These may sound like the disgruntled ramblings of a frustrated wannabe > developer, but I hope you can see where I am coming from. Oh,