In a desperate mad grab for power which does not belong to me and to
confirm suspicions that I'm secretly not merely a developer, but a crazed
lunatic trying to take over the world (or at least Debian)[1], I write:
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 02:49:23PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Bug: 37342
> Title: logrotation
> Posted: 28 Apr 1999
> Proposer: Balazs Scheidler
> Seconders: Brock Rozen, Raphaël Hertzog, Brian Almeida, Marco d'Itri,
> Joseph Carter
> Status: consensus (for 2 weeks)
> Description:
> Proposal to change to using logrotate instead of savelog.
> Notes:
> It's probably time to make this an amendment.
Should the proposer or one of the seconders do this? Somebody (anybody)
else? I don't recall that point of our policy-changing policy and didn't
happen to notice it anyplace, including in the policy itself or the
debian-policy package's /usr/doc...
> Bug:
> Title: utmp group proposal
> Posted: 09 May 99
> Proposer: Wichert Akkerman
> Seconders: Branden Robinson, Joel Klecker, Ossama Othman, Raphael Hertzog,
> Marco d'Itri, Joseph Carter
> Status: discussion
> Description:
> Create a new utmp group that can modify utmp, programs that were previously
> suid root can be sgid utmp instead.
The only objection I recall (that the person doing the objecting didn't
want to do something no other dist was going to) has been adressed.. Do
we have a consensus now?
> Bug: 37345
> Title: Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
> Posted: 09 May 99
> Proposer: Julian Gilbey
> Seconders: Joseph Carter, Aaron Van Couwenberg, Marco d'Itri
> Status: discussion
> Description:
> Modify policy to require use of the FHS, with possible exceptions.
I think we need to discuss what exceptions those have to be. Has anyone
run the XOpen FHS test on Debian lately?
> Bug: 37251
> Title: software depending on non-US
> Posted: 06 May 1999
> Proposer: Marco d'Itri
> Seconders: Gordon Matzigkeit, Joseph Carter, Chris Waters
> Status: discussion
> Description:
> Proposal to allow software that depends on software in non-us into main
> (currently restricted to contrib).
Maybe I'm missing something here (it wouldn't be the first time), but I
believe wichert said the changes in the non-us archive (ie, that non-us
is now a section of main, whether the archive happens to be on pandora or
on master is pretty much irrellivant..) If that is the case, and dselect
tells me that it is, is this not pretty much taken care of? If it is,
perhaps we can consider this issue now moot. Other opinions?
> Bug:
> Title: moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy
> Posted: 01 May 1999
> Proposer: Chris Waters
> Seconders: Joey Hess, Karl M. Hegbloom
> Status: stalled
> Description:
> Identical to proposal #36051, with addition of top-level Help menu.
Has someone written the proposed changes to the menu hierarchy as cited
in the objection to this made by Wichert and others (incl. myself)?
--
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First!
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<Iambe> you are not a nutcase
<Knghtbrd> You obviously don't know me well enough yet. =>
[1] *snicker* Hey wait a second, I thought it was Manoj's job to make
the mad grabs for power with the policy? Obviously I'm invading his
turf and we'll have to settle this the hard way.. Possibly this
calls for a DUEL License?
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