weekly policy summary
Bug: 37233
Title: FORMAL structure for DEBIAN-POLICY debate
Posted: 07 May 1999
Proposer: Gordon Matzigkeit
Seconders:
Status: unknown
Description:
Lays out a set of legalistic guidlines to be used when discussing
changes to policy. Spurred by recent flamefest on debian-policy.
Notes:
Manoj Srivastava formally objected to this proposal, and was seconded by
Joey Hess and Oliver Elphick.
Bug: 37251
Title: software depending on non-US
Posted: 06 May 1999
Proposer: Marco d'Itri
Seconders: Gordon Matzigkeit, Joseph Carter
Status: discussion
Description:
Proposal to allow software that depends on software in non-us into main
(currently restricted to contrib).
Bug:
Title: configuration of packages
Posted: 5 May 1999
Proposer: Brederlow
Seconders:
Status: discussion
Description:
Draft proposal to graft user-friendly and/or automatic install-time
configuring of packages onto dpkg.
Bug: 37257
Title: libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
Posted: 4 May 1999
Proposer: Ossama Othman
Seconders: Marcus Brinkmann, Marcelo E. Magallon
Status: discussion
Description:
.la files aren't useless, libtool can use them and they are essential
to programs that use libltdl. Proposal is to include .la files in -dev
packages if they are produced by the build process.
Bug:
Title: moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy
Posted: 1 May 1999
Proposer: Chris Waters
Seconders: Joey Hess, Karl M. Hegbloom
Status: discussion
Description:
Identical to proposal #36051, with addition of top-level Help menu.
Bug:
Title: logrotation
Posted: 28 Apr 1999
Proposer: Balazs Scheidler
Seconders: Brock Rozen, Raphaël Hertzog, Brian Almeida, Marco d'Itri
Status: consensus
Description:
Proposal to change to using logrotate instead of savelog.
Bug:
Title: Scripts PROPOSAL
Posted: 22 Apr 1999
Proposer: Brock Rozen
Seconders:
Status: stalled
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: 36051
Title: moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy
Posted: 14 Apr 1999
Proposer: Joey Hess
Seconders: Raphael Hertzog, Joseph Carter, Branden Robinson
Status: stalled
Description:
Proposal to move existing menu hierarcy text into policy with only small
changes, and postpone large changes until later.
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.
I'm only making my best guess about items the group is in consensus
about, and I won't mark anything as status: consensus until people have
had at least one week to comment on it.
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see shy jo
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