I'll second bugfixes happily. =>
On Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 05:31:23PM -0500, Zed Pobre wrote:
> The following is a pre-proposal for changes in the policy document.
> It requires two seconds to become a formal proposal. This is a call
> for those seconds, and should those seconds be received, a call for
> informal discussion of the changes in the proposal. None of the
> changes listed are intended to be controversial, and have already been
> reported as bugs in the BTS. The deadline for discussion is set at 14
> days from receipt of the necessary seconds. If a consensus cannot be
> reached within that time, the proposal will be withdrawn.
>
>
>
> All Section numbers refer to the Policy Manual.
>
> Part 1: (bug#26461)
>
> The fourth paragraph of Section 2.3.8 ("Maintainer scripts") should be
> changed from:
>
> If a package has a vitally important piece of information to pass to
> the user (such as "don't run me as I am, you must edit the following
> configuration files first or you risk your system emitting
> badly-formatted messages"), it should display this in the postinst
> script and prompt the user to hit return to acknowledge the
> message. Copyright messages do not count as vitally important (they
> belong in /usr/doc/copyright); neither do instructions on how to use a
> program (these should be in on line documentation, where all the users
> can see them).
>
> to:
>
> If a package has a vitally important piece of information to pass to
> the user (such as "don't run me as I am, you must edit the following
> configuration files first or you risk your system emitting
> badly-formatted messages"), it should display this in the postinst
> script and prompt the user to hit return to acknowledge the
> message. Copyright messages do not count as vitally important (they
> belong in /usr/doc/<package-name>/copyright); neither do instructions
> on how to use a program (these should be in on line documentation,
> where all the users can see them).
>
>
>
> Part 2: (bug#25911)
>
> Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a subsection of
> section 3.3 ("Files"), becoming section 3.3.8, placing it after
> "Configuration files". Section 3.3.8 ("Permissions and owners")
> should become Section 3.3.9. All subsections of Section 5 after 5.5
> should be accordingly moved down to fill in the number gap.
>
>
> Part 3: (bug#25385)
>
> Section 4.1 ("Architecture specification strings") should be changed
> to allow the Hurd operating system. This requires that the segment
> reading:
>
> where `<arch>' is one of the following: i386, alpha, arm, m68k,
> powerpc, sparc.
>
> be changed to:
>
> where `<arch>' is one of the following: i386, alpha, arm, gnu, m68k,
> powerpc, sparc.
>
>
> Part 4: (bug#21185)
>
> The first paragraph of Section 5.8 ("Changelog files") be changed
> from:
>
> This installed file must contain a copy of the debian/changelog file
> from your Debian source tree, and a copy of the upstream changelog
> file if there is one. They should usually be installed in
> /usr/doc/package as changelog.Debian.gz and changelog.gz
> respectively.
>
> to:
>
> The installed file must contain a copy of the debian/changelog file
> from your Debian source tree, and a copy of the upstream changelog
> file if there is one. The debian/changelog file should be installed
> in /usr/doc/<package> as changelog.Debian.gz. If the upstream
> changelog file is text formatted, it must be accessable as
> /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.gz. If the upstream changelog file is
> HTML formatted, it must be accessable as
> /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz. If the upstream changelog
> files do not already conform to this naming convention, then this may
> be achieved by either renaming the files or adding a symbolic link at
> the packaging developer's discretion.
>
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> Zed Pobre <zed@va.debian.org> | PGP key on servers, fingerprint on finger
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