Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.3.0
Severity: normal
According to /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz:
- Examples and templates should now live in
/usr/share/ or /usr/lib/, with
symbolic links from /usr/share/doc///examples as
needed.
However
On 18-Apr-01, 07:10 (CDT), Debian Installer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
For the record, this is annoying, as I can't[1] upgrade debian-policy
without removing the packaging manual, which still contains information
that is not available els
On 23-Apr-01, 12:08 (CDT), Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> problem is when following unstable, one sometimes has debhelper
> depends change fairly often. No sense forcing the build-depends maint
> to keep up with joeyh's
No, I'm suggesting that build-depends could simply have an
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 at 23:28:52 +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote:
> Today I got sick of waiting for man to search for some pages, it has
> been getting steadily slower for weeks now. I suspect my man database
> had become at least semi-corrupt, I have been running man on lots of
> local files rece
On Monday 23 April 2001 5:11 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.3.0
> Severity: wishlist
>
[big snip, you already know what it says]
Today I got sick of waiting for man to search for some pages, it has
been getting steadily slower for weeks now. I suspect my man da
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy
Module name:debian-policy
Changes by: jdg Mon Apr 23 13:39:14 PDT 2001
Modified files:
. : policy.sgml
Log message:
* Corrections to chapter 6
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:48:29PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is the remains of a discussion taken on debian-devel (Packages vs
> Sources), which did not provoke any reply in the last couple of days.
>
> I plan to develop this into a policy proposal, but as I feel the issue mig
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:46:25PM -0500, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:08:32AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> > problem is when following unstable, one sometimes has debhelper
> > depends change fairly often. No sense forcing the build-depends
> > maint to keep up with
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:20:01AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> my understanding of build-essential is that the package gives people
> an easy way to have a system capable of compiling a C(++) program.
> There is nothing in it that inherently gives one the ability to make
> deb packages.
W
> Bottom line, I think the short-term arguments against making debhelper
> build-essential are decent, but long-term is another matter.
>
my understanding of build-essential is that the package gives people an easy
way to have a system capable of compiling a C(++) program. There is nothing in
it
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:08:32AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> problem is when following unstable, one sometimes has debhelper
> depends change fairly often. No sense forcing the build-depends
> maint to keep up with joeyh's rapid upload rates.
That's a reasonable argument for now, altho
> Ain't gonna happen. It's been discussed before. The problem is that most
> debhelper Build-Depends actually need to be versioned[1], which won't
> work with build-essential.
>
problem is when following unstable, one sometimes has debhelper depends change
fairly often. No sense forcing the buil
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.3.0
Severity: wishlist
[I've clarified this proposal slightly from what I originally posted on
debian-policy, in response to Chris Waters' comments.]
A recent discussion on debian-mentors [1] brought it to my attention
that packages frequently rely on an imple
On 23-Apr-01, 04:02 (CDT), Lars Steinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:24:42AM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> > Package: tktable
> > Version: 2.6-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > The source package needs debhelper to build.
>
> I'd have expected that is a standard build d
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:24:42AM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Package: tktable
> Version: 2.6-2
> Severity: normal
>
> The source package needs debhelper to build.
I'd have expected that is a standard build dependency, guess we might
have to issue a policy request that the commonly accepted
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