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To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: new policy revision
From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Organization: The Debian Project
Date: 29 Jun 1999 16:37:06 -0500

Hi folks,

        At long last, I have created a new policy version, the one
 that is destined to be version 3.0.0.0. As promised, I am not
 uploading this package, but presenting it here in order that people
 have a first look at it and make sure I have not made major
 mistakes. https://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/

        manoj

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Format: 1.6
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:57:47 -0500
Source: debian-policy
Binary: packaging-manual debian-policy
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.5.1.90
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Description:
 debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
 packaging-manual - Debian Packaging Manual
Closes: 21969 28747 37257 37338 37345 37713 38212
Changes:
 debian-policy (2.5.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
     officially uploaded.
   * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
     .deb packages)
   * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
   * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
     Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
     closes: Bug#21969
   * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
     /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
     footnote. closes: Bug#28747
   * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
     closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
   * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
     closes: Bug# 37342
   * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
     Window System) closes: Bug#38212
   * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
     closes: Bug#37713
   * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
     Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
     scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
Files:
 8e5353a4abf0867d9bc6ce4157598133 627 doc optional debian-policy_2.5.1.90.dsc
 4ed9c426ff13b72ded3ece847738a084 382917 doc optional debian-policy_2.5.1.90.tar.gz
 8ca2245e32fe3bb5ce0a7dd81fefbfe3 396326 doc optional debian-policy_2.5.1.90_all.deb
 485bcffa1fa661748efac3aa309dc3f8 20 byhand - policy.ps.gz
 485bcffa1fa661748efac3aa309dc3f8 20 byhand - policy.pdf.gz
 981ec8a04f15068f72b93d577f47538e 36515 byhand - policy.html.tar.gz
 1f55cb54059b8ae0ea8f2decd8c6b506 33451 byhand - policy.text.gz
 3ed7aa5a489834b24bb28ff377a34aa9 10982 byhand - libc6-migration.text
 69b6858a5390dae9dd35afb7f3efe9ef 5636 byhand - virtual-package-names-list.text
 f0b81630c0a7ee89bbffbabab1a7c5f8 2158 byhand - menu-policy.text.gz
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 00610a26a2b5997b0b5ef00067ae3610 20 byhand - packaging.pdf.gz
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 springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the
 brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest (pun on the word
 "nirvana"), bhikkhus. 283
Manoj Srivastava   <srivasta@debian.org>    <https://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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To: dwn@debian.org
Cc: shishamo@osk2.3web.ne.jp
Subject: [Debian Weekly News] Debian JP News 1999/6/22 - 1999/6/28
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:07:59 +0900
From: Katsura S. Yoshio <shishamo@osk2.3web.ne.jp>

[...]

This is the recent news [6/22/1999 - 6/28/1999] from Debian JP
Project.

* Bug stamp-out list plotter (debian-users)
Ken Nakagaki posted a Perl script to visualize the critical buglist
submitted by Wichert.  It plots the below lists:
	* New BUG cumulative number
	* Modified BUG cumulative number
	* Not-modified and remain BUG number
	* The all release critical BUG number
	* All BUG cumulative number

(The script)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-users/199906/msg00584.html

(The PS gzipped results)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-users/199906/msg00696.html

* merge xfree86-xtt (debian-devel)
Mutsumi Ishikawa proposed the scheme for merging xtt to potato.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/199906/msg00317.html

* file-kanji and file2 (debian-devel)
 The discussion of the alignment between Debian JP packages and Debian
packages.  For example, Debian JP once had a package called file2, and
when it was uploaded to Debian, its name was changed to file-kanji.
So now we have the very same packages except their names.

 Can we write like the below?

Conflicts: file2
Replaces: file2

Note file2 appears only in Debian JP, not in Debian.

Can't we set the dependency on the packages which are not in Debian
but in Debian JP?

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/199906/msg00342.html

*  Applying newer license to older vim (debian-devel)
Taketoshi Sano confirmed the vim 3.0 license (jvim is based on vim 3.0
for present).  Backward compatibility of the license is agreed with vim
author and Sano-san will upload new license jvim to Debian.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/199906/msg00348.html

*  Package description translation (debian-doc)
Japanese translation of Package description is now ongoing.
<v04010101b39b3d2f6fec@a2.mbn.or.jp>

* Debian developers Reference translation (debian-doc)
Yoshizumi Endo expresses the will to translation.
<199906211603.BAA02946@smtp5.dti.ne.jp>

Thanks a lot for the below contribution from Debian JP project:
Proofread: Atsuhito Kohda, Ryuichi Arafune, Masayuki Hatta

Best Regards,  K.S.Yoshio
         http://www2.osk.3web.ne.jp/~shishamo/
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