Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

1999-12-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a nice simple solution that would make our lives infinitely > easier in lots of other ways: Build outside the source tree! This is > how autoconf is intended to be used and it makes things a lot easier > to manage. Sure. Lots of packages do just t

Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

1999-12-19 Thread Greg Stark
Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > debian/rules clean is already required to reverse the effects of the build. > > In theory, yes. But unless you audit the .diff.gz, it's not > necessarily obvious if this fails. In fact there are packages

Re: Shared libs in non-standard locations

1999-12-19 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 01:28:21PM -0800, Darren wrote: > It's a good point. How should we rewrite section 4.2 to say that it > only refers to public libraries rather than internal libraries? And > which parts do and don't? What about compiled Perl modules, for > example? I don't know the answe

Re: Bug#53054: pygresql: change version number to reflect correct upstream version

1999-12-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
> >Yes, it's just in the packaging manual... yes, that is not policy... *yet* Actually, the DPaM is policy, altough it contains some material that ought not to be. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% ""

Re: Bug#53054: pygresql: change version number to reflect correct upstream version

1999-12-19 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: > [Forwarded to debian-policy for comments] > > "Juergen A. Erhard" wrote: > >Package: python-pygresql > >Version: 6.5.3-4 > >Severity: normal > > > >The upstream version of the pygresql package is 2.4, but the upstream > >version number on t

Re: Bug#53054: pygresql: change version number to reflect correct upstream version

1999-12-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
[Forwarded to debian-policy for comments] "Juergen A. Erhard" wrote: >Package: python-pygresql >Version: 6.5.3-4 >Severity: normal > >The upstream version of the pygresql package is 2.4, but the upstream >version number on this .deb is 6.5.3. This is wrong. > >Yes, it's just in th