Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:55:31PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > You are quite right; when a doom engine is added providing > doom-engine, which does *not* support boom features, you > could end up with an unplayable combination by installing > freedoom and having the "doom-e

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
a pessimistic approach: some users will search for "doom" and install the first thing they see; others will seek out an engine they've heard of; others will take the game resource route. This is why we have this pseudo-circular dependency, to cover both bases. -- Jon Dowland --

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:03:57AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: >> A brief explanation as to their meaning. Doom games are >> divided into engine and world-resource components. The >> former is captured by 'doom-engine'. > > I don&#x

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
le combination by installing freedoom and having the "doom-engine" dependency satisfied by this new, non-boom engine. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-04 Thread Jon Dowland
ages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.8.16 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- Jon Dowland http://jmtd.net/ --- virtual-package-names-list.txt~ 2009-03-03 18:49:11.0 + +++ virtual-package-names-list.txt 2009-03-03 18:52:

Bug#432564: Allow debian/rules to not be a makefile

2007-12-06 Thread Jon Dowland
ial: yes or which are depended on by build-essential. I haven't thought of a clear way of wording this, though. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-06-21 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1150848896 past the epoch, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: > >> -- Text > >> ++ Text Tools/Utilities/Accessories... > > > > Could you give an example of what would belong there? > > That is a no, unless you can provide a very accurate > d

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-06-17 Thread Jon Dowland
happens. > -- Text > ++ Text Tools/Utilities/Accessories... Could you give an example of what would belong there? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-06-17 Thread Jon Dowland
> sacrificed to linguistic perfection. Hi, It's not clear from your message whether you are referring to a specific portion of the proposal, or the proposal as a whole. Could you clarify? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: typo in http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scripts

2006-06-13 Thread Jon Dowland
to the same lockfile or tempfile and the possible interleavings that could happen if checks for the file were not atomic. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#294633: debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to virtual-package-names-list.txt

2005-02-10 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.1 Severity: wishlist Hello, I am following the steps in virtual-package-names-list.txt[1] in order to add (or not add) the virtual package name 'x-display-manager' to the authorative list of virtual package names. The virtual package x-display-manager is desc