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

2001-07-26 Thread Robert Woodcock
On July 26, 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > * libid3-3.7-13 [...] > I don't see where those numbers come from or why they are useful. id3lib's current soname is: 'libid3-3.7.so.13'. Don't ask me why. I'm open to suggestions, but noone had any better ideas when I originally created the package. I

Re: calling MAKEDEV from postinst

2001-07-26 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 25 Jul 2001, Adam Heath wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > > On Wed 25 Jul 2001, Adam Heath wrote: > > > > > > What happens if the admin has set certain permissions on the device > > > files, and > > > you go and recreate them, thereby removing those permissions? > > > > >

Re: calling MAKEDEV from postinst

2001-07-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Wed 25 Jul 2001, Adam Heath wrote: > > > > What happens if the admin has set certain permissions on the device files, > > and > > you go and recreate them, thereby removing those permissions? > > > > So you say, that's easy to fix, I just won't recre

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

2001-07-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Enrique Zanardi wrote: > Current practice suggests hyphen instead of dot for including a version > in a package name: mico-2.3.0, kernel-image-2.2.17, cpp-2.95, perl-5.005, > netscape-smotif-475, libgnat-3.13p-1, libbz2-1.0, libid3-3.7-13, ... > just to name a few. Hm, I should have re

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

2001-07-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:06:26PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > Policy wants shared libraries to be in packages of names like libfoo6 > > > for a libfoo.so.6. However this becomes confusi

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

2001-07-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > 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 separ

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

2001-07-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > 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 t

Re: calling MAKEDEV from postinst

2001-07-26 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 25 Jul 2001, Adam Heath wrote: > > What happens if the admin has set certain permissions on the device files, and > you go and recreate them, thereby removing those permissions? > > So you say, that's easy to fix, I just won't recreate the devices if they > already exist. Well, what happe

Re: calling MAKEDEV from postinst

2001-07-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > I got a bug report, marked "serious", on isdnutils today. > > It concerns the fact that MAKEDEV is called from the postinst to create > the required ISDN devices, without first asking the user for permission. > > Apparently this is policy, although no on

CVS jdg: * Add Uploaders field to debian/control

2001-07-26 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: jdg Wed Jul 25 22:39:27 PDT 2001 Modified files: debian : control rules Log message: * Add Uploaders field to debian/control