Policy Weekly for May 1
Hi everyone, this is an experiment to try to get weekly postings of policy
topics happening again. Now seems like a good time, since the policy list
has been having some active proposals on it recently. Notice that this has a
very regular format - if I keep doing it I will try to automate as much of
it as possible. To that end, I'd like to encourage everyone to post policy
proposals as wishlist bugs, using Manoj's guidlines
(http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9810/msg00046.html).
Items will remain on this list until stalled for 2 weeks or done.
An item becomes stalled if there is no activity for 1 week.
Bug: 21875
Title: fixing nntpserver inconsitency
Begin-date: 23 Apr 1999
Proposed-by: Joey Hess
Seconders: Branden Robinson, Santiago Vila, Raphael Hertzog
Status: done
Description:
Change /etc/nntpserver to /etc/news/server.
Bug: 36051
Title: moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy
Begin-date: 14 Apr 1999
Proposed-by: Joey Hess
Seconders: Raphael Hertzog, Joseph Carter, Branden Robinson
Status: discussion
Description:
Proposal to move existing menu hierarcy text into policy with only small
changes, and postpone large changes until later.
Notes:
There was some discussion, but we didn't clearly reach a consensus.
No-one disagrees that some menu structure should be added to policy, but
there is some disagreement that the suggested structure should go in as-is.
Bug:
Title: Scripts PROPOSAL
Begin-date: 22 Apr 1999
Proposed-by: Brock Rozen
Seconders:
Status: discussion
Description:
Proposal to require that scripts ensure the environment they run in is
sensible, by sanitizing PATH and TZ.
Notes:
No consensus. IFS may need to be sanitized as well.
Bug:
Title: logrotation
Begin-date: 28 Apr 1999
Proposed-by: Balazs Scheidler
Seconders: Brock Rozen, Raphaël Hertzog, Brian Almeida, Marco d'Itri
Status: consensus
Description:
Proposal to change to using logrotate instead of savelog.
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