Re: init.d scripts and LSB

2002-05-09 Thread David Pashley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 May 2002 4:16 am, Craig Small wrote: Hello, I have got bug #138251 which talks about the init.d script and how it is missing some nices things etc. Should Debian scripts be following the LSB and if so, why doesn't the policy

Re: The Serious severity

2002-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:17:12PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:12:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:08:51AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I don't care about now, I care about the next release, or the release after that. Then how

Re: init.d scripts and LSB

2002-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:57:51PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: No, the purpose of the LSB is to provide a standard ABI and API for applications to link and program against, whether or not the underlying system has the Linux kernel or not. It has a strange name for that purpose. Is it

Re: Bug#146023: suggested patch against policy, documenting libexec, or current custom on use of lib for binaries in lib* packages

2002-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:41:20PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Junichi == Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Junichi I think this was discussed enough in -devel already, but Junichi some good points about /libexec was given. I've noticed Junichi that some known good practice is

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:11:46PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:02:50PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: I'm concerned about this because when I tried passing over release-critical policy issues to the policy group, it didn't work. [..] Strawman (to quote lots of

Re: The Serious severity

2002-05-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:17:12PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Debian development is asynchronous. That's a nice idea in theory. It just to be true before we had testing. Wichert. -- _

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:19:54PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: Then each section could either have the structure: Policy dictate s Discussion, useful information, guidelines, examples or we could merge them, and have policy dictates all in the form MUST, SHOULD, MAY, MUST NOT,

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:11:46PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:02:50PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: If the dpkg authors would like to hand off some of their design decisions to -policy on a generalised basis, I'm sure they'd say so. It seems a bit, well,

Re: The Serious severity

2002-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 08:02:04PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:17:12PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Debian development is asynchronous. That's a nice idea in theory. It just to be true before we had testing. I can assure you

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:19:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Anthony == Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Anthony The real question is whether maintainers are meant to build Anthony using the features of dpkg, or the ones listed in *Sigh*. Let me see if I can dot the

Re: The Serious severity

2002-05-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: I can assure you I had a lot less time to do stuff like fiddle with the BTS when I was trying to get potato released. And I can assure you I was doing a lot more work on new things while still working on the potato release than I am doing now. Wichert. --

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-09 Thread Steve Greenland
On 09-May-02, 12:48 (CDT), Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:11:46PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: My suggestion for a policy rewrite it to move to the standard RFC uses of MUST and SHOULD, and indication RC-ness in an orthogonal way. In short, this

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-09 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:48:28AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:11:46PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:02:50PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: I'm concerned about this because when I tried passing over release-critical policy issues to the

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
-project Bcc'ed only. On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:17:28PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:02:47AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:19:54PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: Then each section could either have the structure: or we could merge