On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 07:22:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > The package is considered production quality by Redhat (not that this
> > means ANYTHING...) I've locally converted exim, apache, and a couple
> > other things to it. Seems to work fine.
>
> Well, I'd presume it's the rpm that RedHat consider production quality,
> not the .deb, and packaging errors do occur every now and then.
Yah, I fixed those.
> Eh, I guess I'm just more of the mindset of `make sure it works then
> adapt policy' than `policy must always be followed'.
>
[..]
>
> All the packages I upload violate policy. Most are missing manpages,
> and probably other things. Policy's an ideal, not a set of 101
> commandments. IMO, etc.
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* mental note, list aj's packages in the
* BTS and start filing bug reports ;>
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> In any case, policy says that "the best way to do this is to use
> `savelog'", not that that's the only way.
>
> Have there been enough seconds yet and all? Is there anything holding this
> up (apart from the existing `<package>.log' wording)?
Yes, got all the seconds it needs. It's now been changed to [AMMENDMENT]
iirc (I'm about to hit the sack so don't count on my memory) The only
thing that has come up is the sudden question about the .log thing, which
I actually think is a good idea to be honest. I name my files .text and
the like even though I don't have to just because it makes them easy to
recognize as being textfiles. Logfiles may be moved outside of /var/log
or emailed or whatever.. When that happens, the .log extention becomes
useful information.
I'm not some robot bent on galactic domination (I am not a refrigerator!)
and I'm not going to stand outside -devel-changes with a lightmallet prop
bashing people in the head if they don't name their logfiles with .log
extention, but I might generate static that disrupts your TV reception,
even if you have cable...[1]
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First!
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Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
[1] You _REALLY_ had to have seen the Animaniacs parody of Star Wars to
make any sense of that entire paragraph ....
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