Bug#87828: PROPOSAL] Deprecate confusing Build-Depends arch syntax

2001-03-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:43:31PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Currently, policy says (section 7.1): [...] > -names separated by whitespace. An exclamation mark may be prepended > -to each name. If the current Debian host architecture is not in this [...] > +names separated by white

Re: Bug#83924: upgrading-checklist.text should mention DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS specifically

2001-03-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:43:00PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ian> IMO the right thing to do is to always build with -g and strip > Ian> at `install' time (ie, when the programs are copied into the > Ian> debian/tmp directory, before

Re: what are shared libs and what are not ...

2001-03-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:55:11AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 07-Mar-2001 Ben Collins wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:14:08PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> while packaging modlogan i have to use overrides because modlogan > >> uses shared objects for its plug

Re: what are shared libs and what are not ...

2001-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2001 Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:14:08PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote: >> hi, >> >> while packaging modlogan i have to use overrides because modlogan >> uses shared objects for its plugin system which are not shared >> libs. but since there has to be a shlibs file for

Re: what are shared libs and what are not ...

2001-03-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:14:08PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > hi, > > while packaging modlogan i have to use overrides because modlogan > uses shared objects for its plugin system which are not shared > libs. but since there has to be a shlibs file for shared objects > under /usr/lib i get lot

what are shared libs and what are not ...

2001-03-07 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, while packaging modlogan i have to use overrides because modlogan uses shared objects for its plugin system which are not shared libs. but since there has to be a shlibs file for shared objects under /usr/lib i get lots of lintian errors, i.e. policy violations. i talked to shaleh and he told

Re: seeking resolution to issues I have raised

2001-03-07 Thread idalton
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:39:56PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:38:53PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > So - reassigning the lintian bug about this to policy. > > > > Am I right in taking from the above that /usr/${arch} is essentially a > > miniature mirror o