Re: RFC: Sponsor request convention

2002-11-26 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
lp its maintainer change it according to your requirements to sponsorship requests, and probably integrate it into nm.debian.org, too. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: RFC: Sponsor request convention

2002-11-26 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
r change it according to your requirements to sponsorship requests, and probably integrate it into nm.debian.org, too. -- Dmitry Borodaenko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-18 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
ons, and in this case the arch-dep/indep criteria serves more to compicate things than to make it more clear and consistent. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-18 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
ore clear cut. SL> Finally, i don't know, but are they all that much people really SL> using /usr/share shared between different arches ? At least that is usage that FHS refers to, and the only practical effect of such division aside from abstract consistency. SL> Does dpkg/apt even allow this to work without breaking all kind of SL> things ? AFAIK yes, but I'm too lazy to prove this :) -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-18 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
ons, and in this case the arch-dep/indep criteria serves more to compicate things than to make it more clear and consistent. -- Dmitry Borodaenko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-18 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
Debian except Alicq are Ruby libraries :), nor in "arch-indep to share" part: aside from common sense "lib is for libraries", in another sub-thread it was already mentioned that even interpreted libraries are not always "arch-indep". -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-18 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
ore clear cut. SL> Finally, i don't know, but are they all that much people really SL> using /usr/share shared between different arches ? At least that is usage that FHS refers to, and the only practical effect of such division aside from abstract consistency. SL> Does dpkg/apt

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-18 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
Debian except Alicq are Ruby libraries :), nor in "arch-indep to share" part: aside from common sense "lib is for libraries", in another sub-thread it was already mentioned that even interpreted libraries are not always "arch-indep". -- Dmitry Borodaenko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
thon stores everything in /usr/lib, again as a SL> practical concession to the fact that upstream installation SL> directories don't make it easy to use separate paths for SL> arch-independent and arch-dependent objects. Doesn't apply to Ruby. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
le for some architectures, as is the case with Alicq: it depends on tcl8.3 which is not available on Hurd and SH. Not to mention Java "portability": we had problems porting Java applications between Windows and Linux on i386 alone, I can imagine what we'd encouter had we had to support MIPS. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
thon stores everything in /usr/lib, again as a SL> practical concession to the fact that upstream installation SL> directories don't make it easy to use separate paths for SL> arch-independent and arch-dependent objects. Doesn't apply to Ruby. -- Dmitry Borodaenko -- T

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
le for some architectures, as is the case with Alicq: it depends on tcl8.3 which is not available on Hurd and SH. Not to mention Java "portability": we had problems porting Java applications between Windows and Linux on i386 alone, I can imagine what we'd encouter had we had to suppo

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
an interpreted language policies aren't consistent on this issue, and whichever way I go, I end up inconsistent either with Java and Emacs (/usr/share) or with Perl (/usr/share and /usr/lib) or with Python, Ruby and Tcl (/usr/lib). -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
t part of such libaries into /usr/lib (as is the case with Perl modules), and adding /usr/share to the mix adds complexity necessity of which is questionable. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
an interpreted language policies aren't consistent on this issue, and whichever way I go, I end up inconsistent either with Java and Emacs (/usr/share) or with Perl (/usr/share and /usr/lib) or with Python, Ruby and Tcl (/usr/lib). -- Dmitry Borodaenko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
t part of such libaries into /usr/lib (as is the case with Perl modules), and adding /usr/share to the mix adds complexity necessity of which is questionable. -- Dmitry Borodaenko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
is it really lacking precision about modules and libraries for interpreted languages? Was this problem discussed before? -- Dmitry Borodaenko

FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
is it really lacking precision about modules and libraries for interpreted languages? Was this problem discussed before? -- Dmitry Borodaenko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should I override lintian (build-depends-without-arch-dep)?

2002-02-15 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
n `build-indep' should be added to the list of targets in the definition of Build-*-Indep, with proper comments added to debian/rules section. Can someone think about it? I haven't had a good sleep for two nights, so I am not sure if I am thinking straight right now. Sorry ;) -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: Should I override lintian (build-depends-without-arch-dep)?

2002-02-15 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
n `build-indep' should be added to the list of targets in the definition of Build-*-Indep, with proper comments added to debian/rules section. Can someone think about it? I haven't had a good sleep for two nights, so I am not sure if I am thinking straight right now. Sorry ;) -- Dmitry Borodaenko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]