>>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wichert> I miss my proposal to use dpkg-shlibdeps for libraries as
Wichert> well. It's quite essential for woody, since the CVS dpkg
Wichert> doesn't use ldd anymore but objdump.
I am kind of concerned about this, just like Julian was, with
regards to upgrading all the packages to the new method. As I still
am smarting from the /usr/doc fiasco, having a proper transition plan
is perhaps as important as changing policy.
(I can just see people waiting in the wings ready to jump down
our throats for implementing policy without a plan explicitly laid
out to handle the transition).
Secondly, I am not sure this belongs in policy anyway (I see
that since the packaging manual mentiond dpkg-shlibdeps and
ldd, that had to changed, since it is going to be wrong
soon). However, there is nothing in here that is policy: to do
otherwise would not work, and the paclage would break. I think we
need to remove the aspects of the packaging manual that are merely
documentation for dpkg out of the policy; just standard API's that
packages need to depend on (the version numbering is the most
important part that comes to mind). I'll try and get working on
slimming the packaging manual down, and separate the package building
tutorial aspects out of the policy package.
In any case, I did make the change to the packaging manual,
though not without some trepidation.
manoj
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"The genius of you Americans is that you never make any clear-cut
stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves that leave us scratching
our heads wondering if we might possibly have missed something."
Gamel Abdel Nasser
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