Re: communication, friendlyness, DDs (Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging)

2007-12-03 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:08:54PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sunday 02 December 2007 13:19, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > Really, it may have sounded more rude to you, then it was meant to be. > > But I was really annoyed by such a statement, > > That rather implies you were unfriendl

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-03 Thread Francesco Namuri
Hi, Il giorno lun, 03/12/2007 alle 04.38 +0100, Leo "costela" Antunes ha scritto: > Francesco Namuri wrote: > > I would like to know, what in your opinion is the best solution. > > And then, I am mistaken thinking that the problem is related to the fact > > that lib64/ is a symlink to lib/ ? > >

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-03 Thread Francesco Namuri
Hi, Il giorno lun, 03/12/2007 alle 01.00 -0300, Felipe Sateler ha scritto: > Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: > > > could implement something like the widely used > > AC_RELOCATABLE macro to his scripts, to make a '--disable-rpath' option > > available at configure time. > > Is this really needed?

policy for file headers

2007-12-03 Thread David Bremner
Dear Mentors; Can someone point me to policy about file headers? I am currently looking at a package with a GPL copyright file in the top directory, and a terse statment "copyright X, released under the GPL" in most, but not all files. I think the files without copyright are non-essential, and c

Re: communication, friendlyness, DDs (Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging)

2007-12-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:08:54PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 02 December 2007 13:19, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > > > Thats bad. You should not answer to such questions if you don't know it > > > > for your self! Thats especially true because of your DD status that > > > > c

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-12-03 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2007/12/2, Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1) Copyright / license issues: By removing important information from > the previous packaging you might insult the packaging license. > Redistribution in Debian might therefore be illegal. While I do believe that, as a general rule, it's much

Re: policy for file headers

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone point me to policy about file headers? I am currently > looking at a package with a GPL copyright file in the top directory, and > a terse statment "copyright X, released under the GPL" in most, but not > all files. I think the files without

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Francesco Namuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm thinking this because after the call of ./configure the generated > libtool file contains all the lib variables set to corresponding lib64 > directory eg (after a call of ./configure): Yeah, that's broken, don't do that. /usr/lib is the library