Processed: Old proposals and fixed bugs

1999-07-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 39398 [PROPOSED] debian-policy has an unclear statement on > dependancies and priorities Bug#39398: debian-policy has an unclear statement on dependancies and priorities Changed bug title. > severity 39398 wishlist Bug#39398: [PROPOSED] debian

Re: Debian conflicts with FHS on /usr/include/{linux,asm}

1999-07-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 10:32:39PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [... good reasons for just depositing a tarball in /usr/src ..] Based on the explanation provided, okay it makes sense. Tarball it is. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2

Bug#41232: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Build-time dependencies on binary packages

1999-07-15 Thread Roman Hodek
> I realize that these would be in the first stanza of the control > file, and therefore don't technically conflict with the binary > Depends/Conflicts fields, but I think it's going to lead to a lot of > confusion, particularly for new maintainers. Why not name them > Src-Depends, Src-Indep-Depen

Bug#41232: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Build-time dependencies on binary packages

1999-07-15 Thread Roman Hodek
> IMHO, we will have to name specific packages. However, unlike Roman, > I hesitate to provide a huge default set. "make" of course sounds > reasonable, "dpkg-dev" anyway, but "texinfo" not. texinfo *was* in > the tetex packages, and I had some trouble to compile some packages > on the Hurd before

Bug#41232: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Build-time dependencies on binary packages

1999-07-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 09:32:22PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > I realize that these would be in the first stanza of the control > file, and therefore don't technically conflict with the binary > Depends/Conflicts fields, but I think it's going to lead to a lot > of confusion, particularly for n

Re: Debian conflicts with FHS on /usr/include/{linux,asm}

1999-07-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joseph> Actually, Debian's kernel-{source,headers} packages both Joseph> update /usr/src/linux to point at the correct directory and Joseph> the documentation available indicates that /usr/src/linux is Joseph> a symlink which can be p

Bug#41232: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Build-time dependencies on binary packages

1999-07-15 Thread Steve Greenland
If I understand the proposal, I think I have a strong objection to the names of the fields. > 2) Summary > > My proposal is, in short, the following: Define six new fields for > debian/control and specify their meaning. The six new fields are used > only in .dsc files and in the first paragraph

Re: Debian conflicts with FHS on /usr/include/{linux,asm}

1999-07-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 06:05:20PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Joseph> Actually, Debian's kernel-{source,headers} packages both > Joseph> update /usr/src/linux to point at the correct directory > Joseph> and the documentation available indicates that > Joseph> /usr/src/linux is a

Re: Debian conflicts with FHS on /usr/include/{linux,asm}

1999-07-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joseph> Actually, Debian's kernel-{source,headers} packages both Joseph> update /usr/src/linux to point at the correct directory Joseph> and the documentation available indicates that Joseph> /usr/src/linux is a symlink wh

Bug#41269: marked as done (Bad version of debian-policy uploaded)

1999-07-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Debian conflicts with FHS on /usr/include/{linux,asm}

1999-07-15 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Just my personal 2 bits on the issues: /usr/include/{linux|asm|net|}: Normal directories containing the kernel headers the SYSTEM LIBRARIES were compiled with. Kernel sources should go in /usr/src/linux- (Or /usr/src/kernel-source-. I personally use 'linux-' b

Re: Debian conflicts with FHS on /usr/include/{linux,asm}

1999-07-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 03:32:50PM +0100, Thomas Sippel - Dau wrote: > > As for /usr/include/{linux,asm}, and in view of what Linus explained on sizes > of > compiled structures, we should probably settle around: > > /usr/include/linux (Linux-) kernel includes for the development > envir