Bug#545548: debian-policy package should include a pointer to http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:28:04PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The debian-policy change process doesn't seem to be linked from > > anywhere in the debian-policy package (or the policy git repo). It > > would be good to have a pointer to it, to t

Bug#545548: debian-policy package should include a pointer to http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess

On Mon, Sep 07 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > The debian-policy change process doesn't seem to be linked from > anywhere in the debian-policy package (or the policy git repo). It > would be good to have a pointer to it, to tie this all together. ok. I looked at the Wiki, and I found that

Bug#545688: debian-policy: Include webapps policy in external "sub-policy" documents

On Tue, Sep 08 2009, Neil McGovern wrote: > We've now got to the stage where we seem to have a good webapps policy > in place, and would like to have it included in policy main as a > 'sub-policy' document. > For reference, it's at > http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/ I

Re: Bug#542865: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories

On Fri, Sep 04 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > --- > policy.sgml | 34 ++ > 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 0bf8253..347c0bf 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -5584,6 +5584,40 @

Re: [PATCH] Change "relayed" to "related"

Hi, Pushed in for the next policy version. (I did not bother going through the BTS for such an obvious typo fix) manoj -- What scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? J.D. Farley Manoj Srivastava 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B

Re: Init script verbosity

On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > /etc/init.d/skeleton is mentioned in section 9.3.5 as an example to base init > scripts on. As you may know, it suppresses the calls to log_daemon_msg > ("Starting $DESC: $NAME") and log_end_msg ("." or " failed!") during start > and > stop if $VERB

Bug#542865: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:50:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Right, this was a bug in the proposed patch, not a deliberate statement that > only libraries belong in these directories. (As I mentioned, the first > patch was something of a trial balloon.) I think this updated patch should >

Bug#470633: Explicitly say obsolete configuration files may be removed

Hi! On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 14:42:46 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > > > This bug has not been looked at for a while. The wiki article: > > states: > > ,[ http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling ] > > | If you completely remove a configuration file, you