Re: DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)

To: jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl
Cc: schwarz@monet.m.isar.de, debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)
From: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 19:53:13 +0200
Message-id: <19971024195313.63448@dungeon.inka.de>
In-reply-to: <19971024133207.57488@wi.leidenuniv.nl>; from jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl on Fri, Oct 24, 1997 at 01:32:07PM +0100
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971023225246.17246F-100000@monet> <19971024133207.57488@wi.leidenuniv.nl>

> This point was also adressed in Brian White's "Upcoming Debian Releases"
> document
> (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9709/msg00042.html).
>
> Could you please explain how you see the relation between that
> document and
> the "POLICY WEEKLY" messages? Is Brian's document obseleted by them,
> or does
> it serve a different function?

both documents are obsolete :
cu* devices are not included in debian, and trying to use them is a bug.
the text is also included in the makedev readme.debian, so you can
remove it (the text isn't new, everyone has seen it several times in the
upcoming* postings.

andreas

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References:
- DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)
  - From: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>
- Re: DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #4 (October 23, 1997)
  - From: jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl

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