Re: Fixes (in terms of bugs)
In article <[🔎] 19981125162443.E1091@cs.leidenuniv.nl>, Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] (major crosspost)
> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
>> See my other mail to this list -- this is what release quite
>> happily does, and its man page doesn't say anything about it being
>> evil. Where would I (as a new maintainer) have found out that this
>> behaviour is evil, if this hadn't come up? I haven't seen it in
>> the docs.
> Good question. I should be in the the policy imho, but apparently it
> is not in there.
Julien should just file a bug. Maybe an important bug.
> Anyone in -policy feel like adding this?
It's documented in the Developer's Reference, but no, it doesn't have
the official weight of policy.
But after all, why bother changing Policy when it might be easier just
to patch dinstall to close bugs on installation into the archive?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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