Re: Commercial .debs

1998-11-25 Thread Arto Astala
there was a related discussion about origin field in deb, so Debian produced debs would have origin SPI and others some other and how package tools (only apt, I think) would handle multiple packages with the same name (would this affect also depends etc. fields) I think some guide line stuff was t

Commercial .debs

1998-11-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
I just noticed the following planned but non-existent title in the Debian Documentation Project's list of manuals: How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format I thought a little about what might go in here, and realised that I have not seen any guidance

Bug#29955: policy versions aren't parallel with packaging-manual

1998-11-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi >>"Bob" == Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> The most recent version of packaging-manual is 2.4.1.2, while the Bob> most recent version of debian-policy is 2.5.0.0. I believe there has Bob> been agreement on the policy list that these documents would maintain Bob> paralle

Re: Bug#29955: policy versions aren't parallel with packaging-manual

1998-11-25 Thread James Troup
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That said, I'm in favour of dropping the Standards-Version field > entirely. It adds no information, because it's generally not kept > up to date, and even when it says "2.5.0" it doesn't mean that > anyone checked it for compliance with the most rec

Re: Bug#29955: policy versions aren't parallel with packaging-manual

1998-11-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The most recent version of packaging-manual is 2.4.1.2, while > > the most recent version of debian-policy is 2.5.0.0. I believe > > there has been agreement on the policy

Re: Bug#29955: policy versions aren't parallel with packaging-manual

1998-11-25 Thread Richard Braakman
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The most recent version of packaging-manual is 2.4.1.2, while > > the most recent version of debian-policy is 2.5.0.0. I believe > > there has been agreement on the policy list that these docum

Re: Bug#29955: policy versions aren't parallel with packaging-manual

1998-11-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The most recent version of packaging-manual is 2.4.1.2, while > the most recent version of debian-policy is 2.5.0.0. I believe > there has been agreement on the policy list that these documents > would maintain paralle

Re: debiandoc-sgml vs. docbook

1998-11-25 Thread Craig Brozefsky
Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I write documentation for Debian, it'll be in DocBook---and maybe > my first project should be a nice introduction---but it seems like > debiandoc-sgml is not the evolutionary dead end I had thought it to > be. Someone is going to shoot me for