Re: Bug#94827: tktable; Build-Depends: debhelper

2001-04-28 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Greenland wrote: *Nobody* can keep up with joeyh. :-) You may find it easier now that I'm stuck behind this modem. -- see shy jo

Re: Bug#94827: tktable; Build-Depends: debhelper

2001-04-28 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Greenland wrote: Ain't gonna happen. It's been discussed before. The problem is that most debhelper Build-Depends actually need to be versioned[1], which won't work with build-essential. [1] I personally am not convinced this is the case (simply expecting that the build-essentials

Bug#94995: PROPOSAL] Clarifying instructions on linking man pages

2001-04-28 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: - tt/usr/share/man/tt)./p/sect + tt/usr/share/man/tt). If you do not create any links + (whether symlinks, hard links, or .so directives) in the + filesystem to the alternate names of the manpage, then you + should not rely on prgnman/prgn

Bug#66023: [shaleh@valinux.com: Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.]

2001-04-28 Thread Josip Rodin
Just so it's noted. - Forwarded message from Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:58:28 +0200 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Organization: VA Linux From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Josip Rodin

Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.

2001-04-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Josip == Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Josip Our inability to get this into Policy is appaling, isn't it? : You are being too hard on yourself. Putting together a proposal that gathers seconds is non trivial; one has to convince people of the rationale, come up with the

Re: Old proposals again (Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.)

2001-04-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Anthony == Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Anthony Pester people on IRC to second ones that you think are good ideas but Anthony haven't received any attention. This should be anyone on this list who is interesterd in the policy proposals (if you are not interested in

Bug#66023: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.

2001-04-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I second this proposal, subject to the typographical and grammatical corrections included below. manoj --- policy.sgml.prevMon Jul 10 11:01:16 2000 +++ policy.sgml Mon Jul 10 11:41:12 2000

Bug#66023: PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.

2001-04-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:37:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I second this proposal, subject to the typographical and grammatical corrections included below. Thanks. :) --- policy.sgml.prevMon Jul 10 11:01:16 2000 +++ policy.sgml Mon Jul

CVS srivasta: * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052

2001-04-28 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: srivastaSat Apr 28 11:36:54 PDT 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml upgrading-checklist.html debian : changelog rules Added files: . :

Bug#66023: PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.

2001-04-28 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:37:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: +to by third party executables (binaries of other packages), +should be installed in the subdirectories of the ^^^ I would drop that the, to make clear that packages can create

CVS srivasta: TeX got confused by the new perl regexpo in policy; had to create a woraround to package policy

2001-04-28 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: srivastaSat Apr 28 12:10:09 PDT 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml Log message: TeX got confused by the new perl regexpo in policy; had to create a woraround to package policy

Re: CVS jdg: * Make # in closes: regexp optional, as in latest dpkg-dev

2001-04-28 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:18:52PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Log message: * Make # in closes: regexp optional, as in latest dpkg-dev So debian-changelog-mode.el should change its font-lock regexp such that # is optional now? This is a done deal? Yep. File a bug report! Julian