Here's what's been happening on debian-policy this week (and last week).
Note: for details of the policy process, see
http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/policy/ch3.html. Also, this summary is
available on the web at http://kitenet.net/~joey/policy-weekly.html.
Accepted Ame
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:56:23PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > [ Note that I'm not particularly disappointed that someone objects this
> > proposal, I think we could well wait for FHS 2.1 to be official before
> > going any further ].
>
> FHS 2.1 in
As far as I know, the current Debian mail locking mechanism is
dotlock-based.
The message included below (which has been taken from a discussion
on #39030) indicates that this mechanism should be augmented to
include POSIX locking (fcntl) in order to invalidate any caches.
Note that the use of PO
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 03:36:29PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 19:53 -0700 1999-08-18, Joseph Carter wrote:
> >Because even some free programs use shlib plugins without sonames and it'd
> >be better to maintain compatibility than to break it simply because we
> >would prefer to have sonames?
>
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 11:55:35AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > But in this case, wouldn't it be more useful to have them all available
> > everywhere, so that when you're making use of the examples you can get at
> > all the data formats at once, without having to have a machine running
> > each di
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 03:36:29PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> >Because even some free programs use shlib plugins without sonames and it'd
> >be better to maintain compatibility than to break it simply because we
> >would prefer to have sonames?
>
> shared objects without sonames are not shared l
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