Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:35:42 +0900 (JST), Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not > lib*: shared library, all symlinks to .so (including .so -> .so.x.y.z) > and header files > lib*-dev: static library? I forgot that there are multiple version of the same shared library. Sorry. --

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:50:16 +0100, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The static version of a library must be compiled without the > -fPIC option. It must be placed in the development > package, normally lib*-dev, but if its size > exceeds the size of the rest

Bug#32263: Splitting cgi-bin: Make it policy?

2003-02-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I dunno. It seems that policy changes are almost too difficult to even > try. However, most if not all of the webserver packages I filed the bugs > against have done this and closed them. Getting absolutely new, untested, policy

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:46:23PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > > Section 11.2 says: > > > > In general, libraries must have a shared version in the library > > package and a static version in the development package. > > > Since it says "the development package", not "a development pac

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Chris Waters
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:34:13PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Section 11.2 says: > > In general, libraries must have a shared version in the library > package and a static version in the development package. > Since it says "the development package", not "a development package", it >

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:00:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > FWIW, I'm not at all against splitting out -static packages on a > case-by-case basis, as used to be done for X's libs. But there's nothing > in policy to prohibit that anyway. Section 11.2 says: In general, libraries must have a s

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:49:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Adding 1100 additional packages to debian > > > > This tendency to fuck up a discussion, despite my best efforts to talk > > about a compromise right from the start, is very frustrating. > > > > % grep-available -F Package -r 'lib.*

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Dale E Martin wrote: > > Adding 1100 additional packages to debian, and 800 mb[1] additional to be > > downloaded every apt update is unambiguously bloat. > > (As you've stated elsewhere, 800kB not millibits ;-)) Balance that against > the case where anyone downloading -dev packages right now is f

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 07:15:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Adding 1100 additional packages to debian > > This tendency to fuck up a discussion, despite my best efforts to talk > about a compromise right from the start, is very frustrating. > > % grep-available -F Package

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Dale E Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We shouldn't get rid of the them outright, as people have demonstrated > a real need to have static libs in some cases. I think that would more accurately read: "We shouldn't get rid of the them outright, as people have demonstrated a real need to have

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Dale E Martin
> Adding 1100 additional packages to debian, and 800 mb[1] additional to be > downloaded every apt update is unambiguously bloat. (As you've stated elsewhere, 800kB not millibits ;-)) Balance that against the case where anyone downloading -dev packages right now is forced to get static libs when t

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 07:15:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Adding 1100 additional packages to debian This tendency to fuck up a discussion, despite my best efforts to talk about a compromise right from the start, is very frustrating. % grep-available -F Package -r 'lib.*[0-9]$' -s Package -n |