Processed: drop #90989

2001-04-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: retitle 90989 [RETRACTED] making all control fields multi-line Bug#90989: [PROPOSAL] making all control fields multi-line Changed Bug title. tag 90989 +wontfix Unknown tag/s: +wontfix. Recognized are: patch wontfix moreinfo unreproducible fixed potato

Re: Bug#92981: uw-imapd-ssl: can't use maildir format with uw-imap (fwd)

2001-04-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:58:31PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Jaldhar 1. What is the rationale for the policy mail spools must be Jaldhar 0660 $USER:mail? For a 660 mailbox with gid==mail, a sgid mail delivery agent is required. A 600 perm mailbox requires a suid 0

Re: Must and should again

2001-04-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:22:03PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: Anthony == Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Anthony Sure. *Everything* in policy is just a guideline, and Anthony there can always be special cases. That's why we have Anthony maintainers with good judgement.

CVS srivasta: * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual

2001-04-15 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: srivastaSun Apr 15 11:40:32 PDT 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml upgrading-checklist.html debian : changelog Log message: * Removed recommendation on

CVS srivasta: Removed illegasl tag ital; changed it to em

2001-04-15 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: srivastaSun Apr 15 11:53:07 PDT 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml Log message: Removed illegasl tag ital; changed it to em

CVS srivasta: Fix breakage in the rules file

2001-04-15 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: srivastaSun Apr 15 11:57:18 PDT 2001 Modified files: debian : changelog Log message: Fix breakage in the rules file

Re: Must and should again

2001-04-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:43:00AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: In rare cases, specifically when a package has never been available when with files in /usr/doc, it's quite reasonable to include the symlink in the package itself. It's generally not worth the hassle, since most people will use

Re: Bug#92981: uw-imapd-ssl: can't use maildir format with uw-imap (fwd)

2001-04-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 03:48:55PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:58:31PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Jaldhar 1. What is the rationale for the policy mail spools must be Jaldhar 0660 $USER:mail? For a 660 mailbox with gid==mail, a sgid mail delivery

Bug#90989: Processed: drop #90989

2001-04-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:03:30AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: retitle 90989 [RETRACTED] making all control fields multi-line Bug#90989: [PROPOSAL] making all control fields multi-line Changed Bug title. Any reason you retracted this? It seems an eminently sensible thing to do.

CVS jdg: Improvements to chapter 3

2001-04-15 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: jdg Sun Apr 15 17:29:28 PDT 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml debconf_spec : debconf_specification.xml debian : changelog Log message: Improvements to chapter

Re: Bug#92981: uw-imapd-ssl: can't use maildir format with uw-imap (fwd)

2001-04-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 11:23:52PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: Jaldhar 1. What is the rationale for the policy mail spools must be Jaldhar 0660 $USER:mail? For a 660 mailbox with gid==mail, a sgid mail delivery agent is required. A 600 perm mailbox requires a suid 0

CVS jdg: Chapter 4 done

2001-04-15 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: jdg Sun Apr 15 17:39:31 PDT 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml Log message: Chapter 4 done

Re: Bug#92981: uw-imapd-ssl: can't use maildir format with uw-imap (fwd)

2001-04-15 Thread Seth Arnold
[I've gotten to the point of not knowing who said what.. so all attributions are cut.] Or better, it requires that the delivery agent runs under uid of the user that owns the mailbox. But then the delivery agent has to start off running as root to fire off an MDA with the user id of

Re: Must and should again

2001-04-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
I guess there are two conflicting desires here: (1) The Acting Release Manager's desire to have it clear what constitutes an RC bug. (2) Developers' desires to know what must be done in all cases and what ought to be done (but there may be exceptions), and what is currently a

Re: Must and should again

2001-04-15 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Apr-01, 20:16 (CDT), Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess there are two conflicting desires here: (1) The Acting Release Manager's desire to have it clear what constitutes an RC bug. (2) Developers' desires to know what must be done in all cases and what ought to

Re: Must and should again

2001-04-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Julian == Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Julian On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:22:54AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: So we no longer accept uploads of packages that don't have manpages for all their binaries? Julian OK, let's take this example then. At the moment it's only a should.

Re: Must and should again

2001-04-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Seth == Seth Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seth I've wondered about this several times in the past. Would it be Seth possible/feasible/desirable to have an amendment to policy that Seth specifies a schedule for its own replacement? Generally, we have tended to refrain from putting