Re: Policy change proposal - JVMs Provides: requirements

2003-01-20 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Grzegorz" == Grzegorz B Prokopski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Grzegorz> As for my proposals, I think I'd do it this way: Grzegorz> 1. Define exactly what requirements must be met for JVM Grzegorz> to be able to _legally_ provide java-virtual-machine, Grzegorz> java*-runtime e

Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-12 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Rick" == Rick Lutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [long sequence of valid comments about JCK elided] Rick> In the meantime, efforts such as this packaging policy would Rick> do well to keep the definitions straight. To say things Rick> like "native code != Java" and then base

Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-12 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> HELL NO! Why don't you tell us how you really feel, Adam :) -- Stephen "If I claimed I was emporer just cause some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-12 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Andrew" == Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> No it's not. But you can use the gcj produced .so files Andrew> with gcj. If I do all my Java development with gcj, Andrew> Debian packages containing Java libraries compiled to Andrew> .so's are very useful to m

Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-12 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Andrew" == Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> To clarify, I'm talking about Java code compiled (eg, by Andrew> gcj) into architecture-specific machine code. These Andrew> libraries are still meant to be used by Java code (also Andrew> compiled with gcj), not

Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-07 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Branden> My mind can be changed. :) What?? When did that start happening? :) -- Stephen "If I claimed I was emporer just cause some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away"

Re: Configuration management, version 5

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> 1. The configuration space All configuration information Wichert> is stored in what I call the configuration space. This is Wichert> a database with a special design which resembles to Wichert> method we look a

Need a policy for /etc/rc?.d/[SK]* ordering?

1998-05-20 Thread Stephen Zander
Hi, During a discussion on -devel between Joey Schulze, Miquel van Smoorenburg and myself on the difficulties of adding new shutdown scripts to /etc/rc0.d, I suggested (slightly jokingly) that debian may need a policy of number ranges within the startup/shutdown script sequence managed by update-

Re: Documentation as Software (was Re: PerlDL license)

1998-04-16 Thread Stephen Zander
To recap for those just seeing this. I was catching up on old threads in debian-private, one of which had to do with the PerlDL licence. As a result I asked Christian privately if debian policy was still that documentation is software & therefore must comply rigidly with the DFSG. His response: