Re: should XML/SGML documentation ship with sources

2002-12-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:58:17PM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote: > > The consensus we arrived at on debian-doc list (with the exception of > Colin Walters) was that XML/SGML source is in fact source and > shouldn't be there bloating binary pkgs. Thanks for summarizing. I should have responded to d

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:57:48PM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > I did not mean an URI _into_ a field (like URIs into Description), but a > general field which would only contain a URI. URIs are not descriptive for the > binary package management, so it's my _opinion_ (!standards)

Re: should XML/SGML documentation ship with sources

2002-12-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:32:10PM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote: > > I have a question for further discussion, which I'm unsure about. May > or may not be a policy issue. > > Is it a good practice for SGML or XML documentation to ship with > source? > > Pros: > - providing source lets contributor

Re: should XML/SGML documentation ship with sources

2002-12-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:44:18PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 17:32, Adam DiCarlo wrote: > > I have a question for further discussion, which I'm unsure about. May > > or may not be a policy issue. > > > > Is it a good practice for SGML or XML documentation to ship with >

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Adam DiCarlo
My only problem with using the download location URL is not a technical one, but rather than download locations are not software home pages, and the one can't in all cases be derived from the other. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...http://www.onshored.com/>

Re: should XML/SGML documentation ship with sources

2002-12-11 Thread Adam DiCarlo
The consensus we arrived at on debian-doc list (with the exception of Colin Walters) was that XML/SGML source is in fact source and shouldn't be there bloating binary pkgs. Just FYI. Not that I'm proposing this as a policy item, although it might become DDP policy, who knows. -- ...Adam Di Car

Bug#172630: debian-policy: Clarification on /etc/init.d/foo restart behaviour.

2002-12-11 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:56:28PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > restart > - stop and restart the service, > + stop and restart the service if the service is already > running, otherwise start the service, > > reload Agreed; this is already the way

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:29:22PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:50:26PM +, Martin Wheeler wrote: [re: my statement that "homepage" is not (yet) a word.] > > Neither is 'Debian'. > Yes, but we didn't choose this name. More to the point, names aren't necessarily suppo

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:14:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Policy already mandate upstream site in copyright, and it work: The location of the source is not necessarily the same as the project home page (assuming there is a project home page). Small projects especially may have a home pag

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:30:51PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Yes, but that means extraction of possibly huge data.tar.gz, versus > extracting a much tinier control.tar.gz. I can't tell it for sure, but a c program that only extracting such a file should not be so slow, or at least not slower th

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Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:40:08PM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > > If you define "easy" as within reach of "dpkg-deb -x"... I don't. > > "dpkg-deb -I" is easy. > > I may not have undestood, but you don't need to extract the package: if > you want a quick way to have the copyright

Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

2002-12-11 Thread Rob Browning
Andrew Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, this would be great! > >> (BTW does anyone know offhand of a good reference for what's supposed >> to happen when you end up with conflicting shared-lib sub-depends? >> I.e. libfoo -> libbar -> libbaz1 >> -> libbax -> libbaz2 >> so

Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

2002-12-11 Thread Andrew Clausen
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:06:15AM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Possible solutions: > > 4. Fix libtool and libltdl to support >lt_dlopen_interface (const char *name, int interface) > and use that. > > This would require modifyin

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 07:25:14PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > If you define "easy" as within reach of "dpkg-deb -x"... I don't. > "dpkg-deb -I" is easy. I may not have undestood, but you don't need to extract the package: if you want a quick way to have the copyright file, you can unpack the pack

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:04:26PM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > > > Policy already mandate upstream site in copyright, and it work: > > > try > > > grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright > > > > > > 2) Add link to copyright files in packages.debian.org. I think it is >

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:50:26PM +, Martin Wheeler wrote: > > If I have any remaining reservations about this proposal, it's that > > "homepage" is not (yet) an English word, IMO. > > Neither is 'Debian'. Yes, but we didn't choose this name. This is not 1993, we get to have a discussion abo

Bug#172630: debian-policy: Clarification on /etc/init.d/foo restart behaviour.

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 07:56, Bill Allombert wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.5.8.0 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Here a patch that clarify the behavior of /etc/init.d/foo restart. > > This is taken straight out of > LSB 1.2 / Chapter 22. / System Initialization / Init Script

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:27:37PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:14:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Policy already mandate upstream site in copyright, and it work: > > try > > grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright > > > > 2) Add link to copyright files in

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Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Chris Waters wrote: > If I have any remaining reservations about this proposal, it's that > "homepage" is not (yet) an English word, IMO. Neither is 'Debian'. Now for goodness' sake -- grow up. -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT / AVALONIX - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England [E

Re: web browser url viewing proposal

2002-12-11 Thread Clint Adams
> that program may be configured to use /usr/bin/sensible-www-browser Inconsistency that should probably be fixed before going into Policy.

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Allombert
Joy write : >On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:14:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: >> Policy already mandate upstream site in copyright, and it work: >> try >> grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright >> >> 2) Add link to copyright files in packages.debian.org. I think it is >> already worked o

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:23:57PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:14:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Hello developers, > > > > Policy already mandate upstream site in copyright, and it work: > > try > > grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright > [...] > >

Bug#172630: debian-policy: Clarification on /etc/init.d/foo restart behaviour.

2002-12-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Bill Allombert wrote: > Here a patch that clarify the behavior of /etc/init.d/foo restart. > > This is taken straight out of > LSB 1.2 / Chapter 22. / System Initialization / Init Script Actions > > --- policy.sgml 2002-11-15 07:49:40.0 +0100 > +++ policy.sgml.

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:14:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Policy already mandate upstream site in copyright, and it work: > try > grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright > > 2) Add link to copyright files in packages.debian.org. I think it is > already worked on. This requires e

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:14:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello developers, > > Policy already mandate upstream site in copyright, and it work: > try > grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright [...] $ grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://' /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/copyright http://www.pat

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello developers, Policy already mandate upstream site in copyright, and it work: try grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright In fact grep -A1 '^It was downloaded from' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright output a result for half of the packages on my system. Why not: 1) Document this feature:

Bug#172630: debian-policy: Clarification on /etc/init.d/foo restart behaviour.

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.8.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Here a patch that clarify the behavior of /etc/init.d/foo restart. This is taken straight out of LSB 1.2 / Chapter 22. / System Initialization / Init Script Actions --- policy.sgml 2002-11-15 07:49:40.0 +0100 +++ pol

Bug#172436: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] web browser url viewing

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Allombert
Followup-For: Bug #172436 Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.8.0 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.5.8.0 > Severity: normal > > As discussed earlier on this list, and now implemented by lots of stuff > in Debian[2] and with only a few to go[3], I'm prop

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:01:36PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:49:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:03:54AM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote: > > > > As for the extra work, it doesn't matter. > > > It's not nice to screw around with other people's

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:18:05AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > The new field should be done properly ASAP; the developers' > reference can document the existing practice of putting this stuff > in the Description: field, but if we have a consensus to make a new > field, then we should do that, not

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:01:36PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > > > As for the extra work, it doesn't matter. > > > It's not nice to screw around with other people's time like that. > > But no one is *required* to do anything. (Yet, if ever.) This is a > "best-practices" suggestion that only ap

Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

2002-12-11 Thread Rob Browning
Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Possible solutions: 4. Fix libtool and libltdl to support lt_dlopen_interface (const char *name, int interface) and use that. This would require modifying libtool to install a versioned .la files (on archs that can't just dlopen