Re: Bug#33156: debian-policy: Cannot find referenced file in given URL

1999-02-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 06:06:42PM +0100, Brederlow wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think this section should be removed from policy. This document > > contains some (very arguable) reasons why new scripts should not be written > > in csh, but absolutely no reasons why

Bug#33156: debian-policy: Cannot find referenced file in given URL

1999-02-20 Thread Brederlow
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 09:46:40AM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 15:29:38 -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > > This reference should be deleted, or the URL updated. > > > > >From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-wh

Re: Why -g flag?

1999-02-20 Thread Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes: > Looking at the policy, section 4.1, it seems that Debian encourages > building packages with the -g comilation flag. But although that How often have I got a segfault from a prog and longed to use gdb on it? Must be millions. The debian package, altho

Suggestion [ Was: Re: Gnome to be removed from debian? (retracted) ]

1999-02-20 Thread Brederlow
Here's a suggestion on how problems like the gnome stuff or other related stuff could be avoided: Uploads go to /dists/experimental People how are willing to use the package can try it out and report back via mail or http. Something similar to bug could be set up to make it easy to report back.

Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?

1999-02-20 Thread Brederlow
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We also know why this happens: GNOME is still in alpha-stage. > Developments happens horribly fast and what works today will very likely > do something different in the near future. If you take a single snapshot > though and stick with that you have n

Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?

1999-02-20 Thread Brederlow
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why can't libgtk just have a shlibs file that generates dependancies like: > > > > Depends: libgtk1.1 (>= current_version), libgtk1.1 (<< > > next_upstream_version) > > > > All this requires is guessing what nex