Re: Mailcrypt - EMACS package maintainers please read this message.

1998-01-23 Thread Rob Browning
"Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just asking, wouldn't be better to provide a unified interface, where your > scripts decide if install/add-on-package should be called in foreground or > background (or, maybe, pass an argument to install/add-on-package > suggesting what to do)

Re: PW#5-7: Linking shared libraries with -lc

1998-01-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IMO, shared libraries should use `-lsomelib' for each library they directly > depend on, not just `-lc'. For example, the LessTif shared library depends > directly on Xt, Xext, X11 (and through them on other X libs). I have linked > it "-lXt -lXext -l

Re: Mailcrypt - EMACS package maintainers please read this message.

1998-01-23 Thread Davide G. M. Salvetti
> "RB" == Rob Browning. RB> "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> BTW, I don't remember if we have ever discussed about it, but I also >> think add-on packages should byte-compile in background [1], since it >> could be a quiet long job. They should also provide a log. >> >>

Re: RFC: New bug severity level "fixed"

1998-01-23 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I think it is a good idea. However, its implementation would be nearly equivalent to make longer the one-month period a closed bug is still kept in the bug database. If I remember well, the problem for this was disk space, so this may boil down to ask ourselves

Re: PW#5-7: Linking shared libraries with -lc

1998-01-23 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 05:20:49PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > * 7: Linking shared libraries with -lc > approved > - fix text to state that shared libs are always linked dynamically against > each other, but dependency information is only included if `-lc' is used Looking back through the ar

Re: Bug#7903: acknowledged by developer (sendmail+deliver+mailx behaviour on delivering local mail)

1998-01-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> Arrigo Triulzi writes ("Re: Bug#7903 acknowledged by developer Ian> (sendmail+deliver+mailx behaviour on delivering local mail)"): >> Ahem, surely this is a joke! Shouldn't bugs be fixed in stable >> rather than unstable? It has been ope

Re: PW#5-5: Standardized handling of /etc/init.d script options

1998-01-23 Thread Guy Maor
Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15 Jan 1998, Guy Maor wrote: > > For programs which can't reload, I assume it would be ok to just let * > > handle it? > > Sorry, but I don't get your point. What is `*' ?? case "$1" in start) start-stop-daemon ... ;; stop) start-stop-daemon

Re: Mailcrypt - EMACS package maintainers please read this message.

1998-01-23 Thread Rob Browning
"Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, I don't remember if we have ever discussed about it, but I also think > add-on packages should byte-compile in background [1], since it could be a > quiet long job. They should also provide a log. > > [1]: It would be nice if the user co