Bug#100472: [PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-06-10 Thread Andreas Bombe
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.5.0 Severity: wishlist Policy wants shared libraries to be in packages of names like libfoo6 for a libfoo.so.6. However this becomes confusing if the library name ends in a number so that the soversion is separated with a hyphen from the library name. $ egrep

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-10 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:20:48AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and neither is libc6 because some parts of it can only be linked > > statically. > > Which ones? /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a. It contains atexit() and a lot of stat() functions. This has ca

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-10 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:35:30AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Herbert Xu wrote: > > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and neither is libc6 because some parts of it can only be linked > > > statically. > > > > Which ones? > > nss modules come to mind. You mean: $ l

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Herbert Xu wrote: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and neither is libc6 because some parts of it can only be linked > > statically. > > Which ones? nss modules come to mind. Wichert. -- _ / Nothi

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This means that the current GCC 2.95.x package is not conforming to > the policy because it doesn't provide a shared version of libgcc.a, It's fixed in GCC 3.0. > and neither is libc6 because some parts of it can only be linked > statically. Which one

Bug#79736: marked as done (typo in packaging manual)

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 10 Jun 2001 22:07:05 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Fixed in current policy has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibi

Bug#73064: marked as done (packaging-manual: typos in version numbering template)

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#71445: marked as done (dpkg-shlibdeps usage instructions are wrong)

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#75955: marked as done (Section 4.2.14 has obsolete information)

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#64304: marked as done (A question about uploading to "frozen")

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#61801: marked as done (interesting question)

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#54679: marked as done (packaging-manual: Please include japanese translated version)

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#51472: marked as done (packaging manual shouldn't dictate dselect behaviour)

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#31645: marked as done ([PROPOSED] Explicitly making the Packaging Manual a Policy Document)

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: Merge packaging-manual bugs

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 51832 normal Bug#51832: packaging-manual: Architecture setting: more information. Severity set to `normal'. > merge 55356 51832 Bug#51832: packaging-manual: Architecture setting: more information. Bug#55356: packaging-manual: Please clarify mu

Processed: Merge bugs

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > merge 85815 85818 Bug#85815: packaging-manual: about dpkg:UpstreamVersion and dpkg:Version substvars Bug#85818: packaging-manual: about dpkg:UpstreamVersion and dpkg:Version substvars Merged 85815 85818. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please con

Processed: Bug#24223: apt and packaging manual are in contradiction

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 34223 apt Bug#34223: apt and packaging manual are in contradiction Bug reassigned from package `packaging-manual' to `apt'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bug

Bug#34223: Bug#24223: apt and packaging manual are in contradiction

2001-06-10 Thread Julian Gilbey
reassign 34223 apt thanks When importing the packaging manual into the policy document, I left out the chapter on interfaces to dselect; as Enrique said earlier in this bug report: > I think the "dselect methods" chapter doesn't belong in the packaging > manual. It says nothing about how to make

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-10 Thread Florian Weimer
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In section 11.2, it is mandated that every library provides a static > > and a shared version. I don't think this is appropriate, as there > > are programming languages whose shared library support is still > > evolving. > > > The whole discussion in t