Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

gree on a way to generate manual pages > automatically, either at installation time or on the fly, using > help2man. > > Any comments before I submit a bug against the policy? > > Cheers, > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette > : :' : > `. `' “I re

Bug#208010: [PROPOSAL] init script LSB 1.3 compliance

This is a nit, but I think 'status' should be in the example help text, too: > echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/bind {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2 echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/bind {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status}" >&2

Re: Software Licenced Under a Specific Version of GPL

Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 31-Aug-01, 16:22 (CDT), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's consider the following proposal: > > > > The GPL file in base-files should better be renamed to "GPL-2" and > > GPL should be a symlink pointing to it. > > > > [ The p

Re: uid/gid - comments?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I notice that mysql-server has the same situation; it creates or takes over the 'mysql' group and user, in the mysql-server.preinst file. (If I happened to have a user with that name before installing mysql-server, I wouldn't be very happy.) I suspect that my

Re: virtual package 'ispell-dictionary'

Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >... So, if folks agree to this, I would say that we need the > proposer and seconds (and an explanation) in place before the status > of the bug is changed. Comments? I'm the prospective proposer. My first sentence was "I don't know how important this is..." and

virtual package 'ispell-dictionary'

I don't know how important this is, but there's a de-facto virtual package, ispell-dictionary, in use for quite some time by the ispell and i* dictionary packages, but not listed in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/virtual-package-names-list.text I'd suggest we add (under Misc