Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:03:23PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Debian policy should be the minimalistic set of rules that packages follow, and expect other packages to foolow too, in order to have the system be greater than the sum of the parts. This is what allows packages to dump

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Anthony == Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Anthony On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:03:23PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Debian policy should be the minimalistic set of rules that packages follow, and expect other packages to foolow too, in order to have the system be greater than

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Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: Part I: The Debian Archive 1: DFSG and the sections of the archive (free, non-free, contrib, non-us) non-us is a different archive. Part II: Packages and metadata Refer to a dpkg reference instead and document extra restrictions Wichert. --

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:30:34PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: Part I: The Debian Archive 1: DFSG and the sections of the archive (free, non-free, contrib, non-us) non-us is a different archive. I understand; this was just an imprecise abbreviation ;-)

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[Please continue to CC me on any replies.] Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:24:14PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa écrivait: I was hoping to get libpkg-guide (library packaging guide) into Developers Reference, although the terms and language is quite

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:05:06AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: - Debian Best Packaging Practices This item is vague. I assume we're talking about tips and developer materials not contained in policy? Yes. It may also include things moved away from policy ... when the distinction

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Julian == Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Julian On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:30:34PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Refer to a dpkg reference instead and document extra restrictions Julian Surely either everything necessary should be in the dpkg reference or Julian everything

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam I wish I could work on only this until I was done, leaving the other Adam bits to other co-maintainers. Adam Unfortunately I do not yet have any other co-maintainers -- Adam volunteers, anyone? I would not mind helping out,

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wichert Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: Surely either everything necessary should be in the dpkg reference or everything necessary should be in policy. Wichert I'm not sure. I see them more as complementing each other, much like

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Colin Walters
[ -policy dropped because this message isn't relevant there ] On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 19:03, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [...] This is what allows us to have a menu system, automated completions in bash, auto-recompilation of elisp packages, and a plethora of other synergies that elevates

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and best packaging practices

2002-05-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: On the other hand, all packages must not be left to the whimsy of the dpkg developers either; since potentially large numbers of packages would be impacted by such changes. I do hope you trust is to make changes sensibly. In fact the current reference