Re: Submitting bugs ? (Was: Getting rid of section "base" ?)

1999-12-05 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:03:44AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > base-files admin ? misc ? > base-passwd admin ? misc ? I think we can keep a section named "base". Some packages, like the above, as well as the kernel packages, fit naturally into that section. We just drop the r

Re: Submitting bugs ? (Was: Getting rid of section "base" ?)

1999-12-05 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:30:41AM +0100, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:03:44AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > Also maybe a lintian test can be written to print an error on > > "Section: base". Any volunteer for this one ? > > I'd say taking 'base' out of 'known_sections' shou

Re: Submitting bugs ? (Was: Getting rid of section "base" ?)

1999-12-02 Thread Yann Dirson
Darren O. Benham writes: > Is this, basicly, a part of policy now? As stated earlier... > > > On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 11:01:07PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > > I cannot find a reason currently for its existance, nor can I find a > > > > reference to it in the Policy and Packaging manua

Re: Submitting bugs ? (Was: Getting rid of section "base" ?)

1999-12-02 Thread Darren O. Benham
Is this, basicly, a part of policy now? On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:03:44AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > Richard Braakman writes: > > On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 11:01:07PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > I cannot find a reason currently for its existance, nor can I find a > > > reference to it in

Re: Submitting bugs ? (Was: Getting rid of section "base" ?)

1999-12-02 Thread Thomas Schoepf
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:03:44AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > Also maybe a lintian test can be written to print an error on > "Section: base". Any volunteer for this one ? I'd say taking 'base' out of 'known_sections' should be sufficient. BTW: why is the lintian 'unkown-section' tag only Type:

Submitting bugs ? (Was: Getting rid of section "base" ?)

1999-12-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Richard Braakman writes: > On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 11:01:07PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > I cannot find a reason currently for its existance, nor can I find a > > reference to it in the Policy and Packaging manuals. > > I see no reason for it either. > > > If there's no (more) reason, I