Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On 29 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Surely we can come to a consensus on something this trivial? > > foo (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low; closes=10002,11930,10109 > > seems fine to me (using ";" after "=low"). Surely this is far from being trivial. That

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > In balance, I think I prefer changing the changelog syntax to > include closed=, though it raises the spectre of modifying > changelog.el and dpkg-parsechangelog. > Why? That syntax should be interpreted by the installer's scripts on master, not on the maint

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Charles" == Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Nooo... Look at this page, in the paragraph about urgency: Charles> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-manual/ch-sourcepkg.html#s-dpkgchangelog Charles> Closes would be a keyword, like urgency, and can be ha

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Joey Hess
Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > Nooo... Look at this page, in the paragraph about urgency: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-manual/ch-sourcepkg.html#s-dpkgchangelog > > Closes would be a keyword, like urgency, and can be handled by the current > keyword=value system, just like urge

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > Another idea: In addition to "hello_1.3-14_i386.changes" we could have > "hello_1.3-14_i386.closes", following a very simple syntax: > > 1234 > 5678 > 9012 If we use this, you don't get the benefit of seeing the bugs that were closed by each release, in the changelog

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Joey Hess
Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > Right, and I agree. > While we are discussing the rexpr to be used, I'd ask to please consider > using: > /close[s]? \s* = \s* (?:bug)? \s* \# (\d+)/ix > > Matches: > close=#1234 > close = > #97531 > Closes = Bug#5678 and also close=#87

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >foo (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low; closes=10002,11930,10109 > >seems fine to me (using ";" after "=low"). Nooo... Look at this page, in the paragraph about urgency: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-manual/ch-sourcepkg.html#s-dpkgchangelog

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Santiago> foo (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low; closes=10002,11930,10109 Santiago> seems fine to me (using ";" after "=low"). Seconded. manoj -- You should encourage yourself, yourself. You should restrain your

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
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Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Santiago> I don't see very elegant to modify changelog syntax. Ulp. I thought it was very elegant ... Santiago> Another idea: In addition to "hello_1.3-14_i386.changes" we Santiago> could have "hello_1.3-14_i386.closes"

Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

1997-10-29 Thread Britton
On 28 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Britton" == Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Britton> Good individuals will almost invariably harbor a few bad > Britton> individual ideas, for whatever reason. This is especially > Britton> true in the technical fields. The process ap

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I don't see very elegant to modify changelog syntax. Another idea: In addition to "hello_1.3-14_i386.changes" we could have "hello_1.3-14_i386.closes", following a very simple syntax: 1234 5678 9012 etc. This way everybody could use their favourite parsing al

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I do not quite understand the X-debian-Closes proposal. When do I >> insert this header? into what? Rob> This was put forward as one option. What they were talking about Rob> was an opti

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Rob Browning wrote: > I happen to think > that the changelog closes= field is the best thing suggested so far. > Right, and I agree. While we are discussing the rexpr to be used, I'd ask to please consider using: /close[s]? \s* = \s* (?:bug)? \s* \# (\d+)/ix without forcing use of upper

Re: libtool and it's use of -rpath

1997-10-29 Thread Mark Eichin
Yes, The X11 config used to use it (still does, upstream) but it's wrong that it did so (anything compiled that way broke horribly when the libc5 libs got moved to the compat dir...)

Re: libtool and it's use of -rpath

1997-10-29 Thread James LewisMoss
> On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 22:34:44 +0100, Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Yann> Christian Schwarz writes: >> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, David Engel wrote: >> >> [snip] >> > I suggest we modify libtool for Debian to not use -rpath. >> > Comments? >> >> Yes, I think this would be good. >>

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them

1997-10-29 Thread Rob Browning
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, this is different than the idea of adding them to the changelog and > having Guy's installer scripts close the bugs. If this X-CLose header is > used, the responsibility for closing bugs is still left up to the developer. > Part of the reason for having

Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

1997-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Britton" == Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Britton> Good individuals will almost invariably harbor a few bad Britton> individual ideas, for whatever reason. This is especially Britton> true in the technical fields. The process appears to be Britton> sufficiently democratic that this