Re: weekly policy summary
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 01:07:02PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 01:21:26PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > >
> > > Md5sum proposal
> > > * Under discussion.
> > > * Proposed on 17 May 1999 by Piotr Roszatycki; seconded by Peter S
> > > Galbraith, Brock Rozen and Marcus Brinkmann.
> > > * Require a md5ums file be present in all packages.
> >
> > I did *NOT* second this.
>
> Here's the message I must have read to imply that you seconded it:
>
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 03:27:15PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > > Peter> This reason alone is enough. I second the motion.
> > >
> > > Why reinvent the wheel and further bloat the packjaging
> > > system? Tripwire does this just fine.
> >
> > I second your motion in general (this does not belong into dpkg directly,
> > but could be an add on). But just as I got curious about tripwire, I was
> > scared away:
>
> I guess I mininterpreted you and you were seconding Manoj's objection, or
> some such thing? Anyway, it's been corrected.
Indeed. Thanks for correcting it. The word "second" seems to be a dangerous
word on the policy list now :)
> (As an aside, I wish people would stop saying "I second that" to things that
> are not a formal proposal.
I second this :)
Thanks for doing these summaries, they are a great help!
Marcus
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