aren't software authors misestimated?

2003-07-03 Thread Michele Alessandrini
Hi, I'm a happy debian user, I really estimate the huge work behind such a magnificent project. I'd like to express a little doubt about policy (very humble opinion): it seems like programs authors are considered like marginal contributors. Dselect description doesn't even report their info or

Re: Policy for 32-bit uids/gids?

2003-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:15:09PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: [Re-sent due to inability to properly address email.] Section 10.2 of policy currently describes uid and gid classes covering the range of 0-65535. This appears to no longer be comprehensive: on a current system running a

Re: aren't software authors misestimated?

2003-07-03 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:04:20 +0200 Michele Alessandrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a happy debian user, I really estimate the huge work behind such a magnificent project. I'd like to express a little doubt about policy (very humble opinion): it seems like programs authors are considered

Bug#199849: unclear recommendation for debconf w/ dpkg-statoverride

2003-07-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.10.0 Severity: minor Tags: patch I think there is a missleading paragraph in the In the files chapter, containing the recommendations for dpkg-statoverride usage. In the particular case, the maintainer must case about how to call debconf and the attached

Re: aren't software authors misestimated?

2003-07-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:04:20PM +0200, Michele Alessandrini wrote: in debian policy they are called, 2 or 3 times, upstream authors, like if maintainers (largely mentioned) were the main authors. Actually, no, no harm is meant by mentioning Debian maintainers more than upstream

Re: aren't software authors misestimated?

2003-07-03 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:04:20PM +0200, Michele Alessandrini wrote: Hi, I'm a happy debian user, I really estimate the huge work behind such a magnificent project. I'd like to express a little doubt about policy (very humble opinion): it seems like programs authors are considered like

Re: Policy for 32-bit uids/gids?

2003-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:23:03AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:15:09 -0500 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Section 10.2 of policy currently describes uid and gid classes covering the range of 0-65535. This appears to no longer be comprehensive: on a current

Re: Policy for 32-bit uids/gids?

2003-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:58:12AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:15:09PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: [Re-sent due to inability to properly address email.] Section 10.2 of policy currently describes uid and gid classes covering the range of 0-65535. This appears to

Re: Policy for 32-bit uids/gids?

2003-07-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
David B Harris dijo [Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:23:03AM -0400]: I certainly agree with the general idea, as well as the specific proposal of allocating 2^16 UIDs for Samba's idmap usage. That being said, will Sarge release with the minimum requisites for the 2^32 UIDs? If so, I'm happy. But

Re: Policy for 32-bit uids/gids?

2003-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:15:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: David B Harris dijo [Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:23:03AM -0400]: I certainly agree with the general idea, as well as the specific proposal of allocating 2^16 UIDs for Samba's idmap usage. That being said, will Sarge release with

Re: Policy for 32-bit uids/gids?

2003-07-03 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: I'm slightly concerned by how we're going to map onto other systems' uses of 32-bit uids here, since there will already be some. 0-99 and 6-64999 were reasonably obvious back in the day, but I don't have a feel for how big systems are allocating uids now. I would be

[proposal] Include list of files created in $HOME as a control file

2003-07-03 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, This discussion has been started in debian-devel, but as I saw that a policy change is needed, I'm bringing it to the correct list. Proposal: Include a control file like conffiles into the debian package in a way the dotfiles and directories in user's home directory can be easily related

Re: [proposal] Include list of files created in $HOME as a control file

2003-07-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:21:42PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: This discussion has been started in debian-devel, but as I saw that a policy change is needed, I'm bringing it to the correct list. Proposal: Include a control file like conffiles into the debian package in a way the dotfiles