Re: Bug#84473: marked as done (please document typical 'hints' and where to find them)
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:19:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:55:51 +0200, Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> said:
>
> > There is a Debian menu sub-policy for a reason. If for some reason
> > the policy process does not allow for such sub-policy to be managed,
> > we will need to move Debian menu sub-policy outside Debian policy I
> > am afraid.
>
> Feh. If you want to manage menu policy -- fine. Come back with
> a detailed policy patch. That would be OK.
Thanks.
> If the hints selection needs to be changed, that needs to be
> worked out. Don't use policy to do design work, though. To get into
> policy things are supposed to be mature -- so use -devel for
> design. Try out a few variants to see what packages may need.
>
> _Then_ make a policy proposal.
Did you see the bug number ? #84473 dated Fri, 2 Feb 2001.
That is a lot of time for maturing. A lot of work have been
done behind the scene to compute a list of useful hints, to update
package menu file to use them, to study the effect on the whole menu
layout, etc. Things are slightly frozen now pending for the release of
Sarge. Closing the bug at this point does not seems a terribly
productive activity.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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