Subject: Bug#3199: Another bizarre message from debian-devel-request

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 03:39 BST

Here's another.  What on earth is it on about ??

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Subject: Re: Bug#3013: elvis is too granular and has short description
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 16:18:48 +0200

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>From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
>To: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
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>Bruce Perens writes ("Re:  Bug#3013: elvis is too granular and has short description"):
>...
>> I can confirm this. We broke the xlib package out of the rest of X
>> so that we could install X-optional programs on non-X systems without
>> the need for no-X versions of the packages.
>...
>> It was the consensus of the group some time ago when we made this change.
>> It belongs in the develper guidelines.
>
>It does indeed.  It will be in the new manual set I'm writing, in the
>Debian policy manual.
>
>...
>> Aw com'on. It's the only X and no-X package pair left in the entirety of
>> Debian. All of the rest are gone as far as I can tell.
>
>Indeed.  I'd very much like to see the elvis packages fall into line here.
>
>...
>> Lighten up. We're not going to reject the packages, but we might attempt
>> to convince you that one of them is redundant.
>
>Quite :-).
>
>Ian.
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From: Anders Chrigstrom <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:14:23 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi!

On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 03:39 BST
> To: Debian bugs submission address <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Anders Chrigstrom <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Bug#3199: Another bizarre message from debian-devel-request
>

...

...
> >Subject: Bug#3013: elvis is too granular and has short description
				     Here is the problem >-----------

 A brief look at the smartlist scripts shows that it tries to be a
little too inteligent. It will recognize de-scription the opposite of
sub-scription as well as trying to find messages that should have been
sent to the request address instead of the submition address.

 I'll have to learn some more about procmail, which smartlist is based on,
before i dare modify it.

/Anders

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