Bug#76868: invoke-rc.d proposal)

2000-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:06:36PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > I'm also (duh) against falling back to a new, optional argument without > > any indication that's appropriate when called. I think that's a really bad > > design. But I'm not really sure what more I can say to convince you thi

Re: policy for menu hints

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:11:51AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > Are you also proposing that the hints default be hint_optimse=true? Not at this point, possibly not ever. The fact that hint optimization can cause items to jump from one menu to another as (other) packages are added and removed is

Re: CDDB db grand unifaction

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:18:47PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Dave Swegen wrote: > > What I would like to see is a policy covering how cddb-capable programs > > should behave. Perhaps this is outside the scope of Debian, but if it > > isn't, and there seems to be some interest I wo

Re: CDDB db grand unifaction

2000-11-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Dave Swegen wrote: > What I would like to see is a policy covering how cddb-capable programs > should behave. Perhaps this is outside the scope of Debian, but if it > isn't, and there seems to be some interest I would be happy to put > together some sort of proposal. I guess that it woul

Re: policy for menu hints

2000-11-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:43:24AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Anand: if you're going to set Reply-to: on your email, try not to make > typos -- the message I'm replying to had "debian-polict" instead of > "debian-policy". Apologies. > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 07:39:25PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrot

Bug#76868: invoke-rc.d proposal)

2000-11-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
(sorry for the Delay, workload has skyrocked for a few days -HMH) On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > I still don't like restart-if-running though. I don't think "if"s should be > in the arguments, and I'd be much more inclined towards something like: > > if [ `/etc/init.d/foo statu

CDDB db grand unifaction

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Swegen
Hi! Over the past few months I've been trying out a number of CD players, and have been slightly annoyed by the fact that different players deal with local cddb databases in different ways, resulting in a number of (sometimes incompatible) db storage schemes, and shedloads of dot-directories. Often

typo

2000-11-14 Thread Robert Joop
hi, i found a typo in the policy document as published on http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html. fix: :%s/KB_Backspace/KB_BackSpace/g proof: :r !grep -i backspace /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h #define XK_BackSpace0xFF08 /* back space, back char */ rj -- Ceci n'est pas une

Re: policy for menu hints

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Waters
Anand: if you're going to set Reply-to: on your email, try not to make typos -- the message I'm replying to had "debian-polict" instead of "debian-policy". On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 07:39:25PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > Interestingly hints seems to override section. Example which I noticed > is

Re: policy for menu hints

2000-11-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:25:26PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Hi, > > With a fairly small amount of work, I have managed to get a couple of > menu hints semi-standardized within Debian. (See the documentation on > the menu package if you don't know what menu hints are. The quick > answer is th

policy for menu hints

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Waters
Hi, With a fairly small amount of work, I have managed to get a couple of menu hints semi-standardized within Debian. (See the documentation on the menu package if you don't know what menu hints are. The quick answer is that they are optional (disabled by default) subcategories within the menus.