Re: lintian: symlinks from /usr/lib into /lib

1998-03-06 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 0.3.0 > > E: e2fslibsg-dev: symlink-should-be-absolute usr/lib/libe2p.so > ../../lib/libe2p.so.2.3 > N: > N: Symbolic links into /etc or /var should be absolute. > N: > N: Refer to Policy

new policy for pixmaps and bitmaps ?

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Bramer
Hello I think we should make a new policy: All pixmaps and bitmaps are locate under /usr/X11R6/include/X11/[pixmaps|bitmaps]. The idea is that the config of all the window-manager und other programs with icons, use the same place. The result is, that the user don't have to search for the righ

lintian: symlinks from /usr/lib into /lib

1998-03-06 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: lintian Version: 0.3.0 E: e2fslibsg-dev: symlink-should-be-absolute usr/lib/libe2p.so ../../lib/libe2p.so.2.3 N: N: Symbolic links into /etc or /var should be absolute. N: N: Refer to Policy Manual, section 3.3.5 for details. N: Neither the policy nor the packaging manual do say any

Re: Namespace pollution

1998-03-06 Thread Brian White
> I propose the following policy: > > No package shall create without approval any command name (or > corresponding manpage): > > 1. not matching the regexp ^[a-z0-9].. > 2. matching ^... if it creates more than two such > 3. matching [^-+._,a-z0-9], or > 4. which is a single common dictionary wo

Re: On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 05:11:08PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > > If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those other > > packages be tagged Essential as well? > > > > Currently, gzip (Essential) depends on debianutils (non-Esse

Re: On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those other > packages be tagged Essential as well? > > Currently, gzip (Essential) depends on debianutils (non-Essential). debianutils 1.7 is essential.

Re: On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 02:27:10PM +, James Troup wrote: > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those > > other packages be tagged Essential as well? > > Certainly *not*, when the other packages are libraries. You are

Re: On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread James Troup
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those > other packages be tagged Essential as well? Certainly *not*, when the other packages are libraries. [I won't give my opinion when the other packages are not libraries on the grounds

On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those other packages be tagged Essential as well? Currently, gzip (Essential) depends on debianutils (non-Essential). -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experiment

Re: policy violation and bug reports. - some resolution?

1998-03-06 Thread Jim
So what's the problem with something like > > case `id -u` in > 0) # whatever we want for root > ;; > *) # whatever we want for everybody else > ;; > esac > > ? Answer: The attitude described by the phrase "whatever WE want for (whoever)" Howbout: We have scripts in a dir like /etc/bash/scripts