Priorities

2000-10-04 Thread Anthony Towns
Hi, I know a lot of people are annoyed by tetex and emacs being standard priority, and I personally find it odd that X isn't "standard" these days, especially since it's "more of a piece of infrastructure than an application". The separation between important and standard also doesn't seem very cl

Bug#73620: Policy example about INSTALL is wrong

2000-10-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:30:47PM -0700, Yves Arrouye wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.2.1.0 > > Section 4.1 of the policy manual says to build after setting > > INSTALL = install > > In addition to the fact that the example should use INSTALL_PROGRAM because > of the strip example

Bug#72849: policy: advises to use -s flag to install in wrong place

2000-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Yann Dirson wrote: > > Actually, dh_strip does more than install -s: > > > > foreach (@executables) { > > > > doit("strip","--remove-section=.comment","--remove-section=.note",$_); > > } > > IIRC Debian's "strip" was once patched to use these flags by default. > Don't know whethe

Bug#73620: Policy example about INSTALL is wrong

2000-10-04 Thread Yves Arrouye
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.2.1.0 Section 4.1 of the policy manual says to build after setting INSTALL = install In addition to the fact that the example should use INSTALL_PROGRAM because of the strip example later in this section, the value of the variable should be /usr/bin/install. If