Bug#38902: [bi]weekly policy summary
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On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 07:27:05PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Data section (#38902)
> * Consensus.
> * Proposed on 3 Jun 1999 by Darren O. Benham; seconded by Peter S
> Galbraith and Peter Makholm.
> * "Since there is interest in packaging census data, maps, genome
> data and other huge datasets I and since most people agreed that
> dropping them in main or contrib is not a great idea, I propose
> the creation of a data section to reside along side of main,
> contrib and non-free." Includes rules about what goes in this
> section.
Seconded.
> MIME support sub-policy
> * Under discussion.
> * Proposed by J.H.M. Dassen; seconded by Raul Miller, Wichert
> Akkerman and Chris Waters.
> * Adds section to policy about registration as a MIME handler. The
> added section references a new mime sub-policy document. This
> proposal just documents existing practice.
That is bug #46516, and I'd like to second it, FWIW.
> Config files must have manpages (#45406)
> * Stalled.
> * Proposed by Nicolás Lichtmaier; seconded by Oliver Elphick and
> Josip Rodin.
> * Require every config file have a man page.
Note that my wording hasn't been approved 100% by the proposer and
other seconder - frankly, I'm having second thoughts about it,
considering the amount of files which would need to get a manpage...
seems rather pointless.
> Correct section 3.3 to take account of file-rc (#41547)
> * Old.
> * Proposed by Julian Gilbey; seconded by Roland Rosenfeld and
> Anthony Towns.
> * Part of policy doesn't make sense if file-rc is being used. This
> proposal is to clean it up so it does make sense, and moreover so
> it emphasizes that update-rc.d is the only thing that should be
> used to register init scripts.
Seconded.
> Virtual package ident-server (#45307)
> * Stalled.
> * Proposed by Chris Lawrence; seconded by Sean 'Shaleh' Perry.
> * Proposes a "ident-daemon" virtual package.
Seconded.
> Permit/require use of bz2 for source packages (#39299)
> * Old.
> * Proposed on 10 Jun 1999 by Chris Lawrence; seconded by Goswin
> Brederlow.
> * "I propose that we permit the use of bzip2 to compress source
> package files (.orig.tar and .diff for most packages, .tar for
> native packages). I further propose that the use of bzip2 be
> mandatory for newly uploaded source files, and that any existing
> source packages in the archive in gzip format exceeding 5 MB of
> compressed space be converted upon the freeze for potato."
> ( The reason this was proposed is because we're almost overflowing
> the second source CD already. This is a very contentious proposal. )
Seconded.
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