short term solution
===
my solution (two virtual names) is meant to be a short term solution.
all i want is, to inform you and to give you the possibility to offer me
a better short term solution.
long term solution
==
anything that needs a policy discussion/findi
> I don't think anyone would call our distribution "broken" if he/she
> removes some of our packages, replaces them with someone else ones, and
> fails.
hey, it can also work the other direction.
their packages are available, ours not...
andreas
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > However, let me make another suggestion: We add a new control field to our
> > packages, namely `Distributor'. All Debian packages will get
> >
> > `Distributor: SPI'
> >
> > and everyone outside the project should use something else, e.g.
> >
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> However, let me make another suggestion: We add a new control field to our
> packages, namely `Distributor'. All Debian packages will get
>
> `Distributor: SPI'
>
> and everyone outside the project should use something else, e.g.
>
> `Di
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
[snip]
> I think Andreas is right here. It'll be debian users that will suffer. I
> don't feel I know enough of the packages and kde to be sure which is the best
> technical solution but I do think we should work something out. And this
> regar
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> > No. We'll definitely not clutter our virtual package list just to support
> > some outside group distributing replacment packages for ours.
> >
> > I suggest that you leave the kde* packages as they are now (have been
> > before that change) so
> As our packaging format becomes more popular (and we really want it,
> don't we?) there will be more upstream authors that package their
> programs as "deb" but don't follow our policies (non-FSSTND-compliant
> packages, for example).
>
> What are we going to do to avoid conflicts between their
> You might also want to contact Andreas Jellinghaus (maintainer of KDE
> packages). Perhaps he knows some tricks how to do this easily :-)
[about changeing paths ...]
oh : it's easy :
a) one large rules file, that moves everything to the right place
and
b) edit every single file, searching for
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> I think Andreas is right here. It'll be debian users that will suffer. I
> don't feel I know enough of the packages and kde to be sure which is the best
> technical solution but I do think we should work something out. And this
> regardless o
Andreas Jellinghaus wrote
> > No. We'll definitely not clutter our virtual package list just to support
> > some outside group distributing replacment packages for ours.
> >
> > I suggest that you leave the kde* packages as they are now (have been
> > before that change) so that they don't provide
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