Re: Virtual packages

2002-11-23 Thread Bill Allombert
Andres Suffield wrote: > That makes sense (variation on #4). How about this text? (I'll > formalise it as a proposal/diff when people have had a chance to > comment) > > When a new virtual package is needed, the maintainers involved should > decide between themselves on what names should be used,

Re: Virtual packages

2002-11-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:41:08PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I think the current process is that a bunch of maintainers > feel there is a need for a virtual package name, and talk to people > maintaining related packages, and work out some virtual package names > that are then used

Bug#167604: debian-policy: provides the exception of static libraries.

2002-11-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:11:30AM +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:30:18 +0100, > > "BA" == Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So if -static issue is described in README.Debian or > similar, and provides a solution for using static libraries, > then even if

Bug#167604: debian-policy: provides the exception of static libraries.

2002-11-23 Thread Akira TAGOH
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:30:18 +0100, > "BA" == Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BA> Thanks for this explanation. So you cannot link programs using dlopen() fully BA> static (because they will loose the PLT), but you can still link them partially BA> static with a static library