Re: Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-12 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > Since I'm reading debian-policy > anyway, I figured the document couldn't hurt having a little polish put on > it. I'm enjoying reading the document and checking it's semantics. But not its punctuation, I hope. > I believe that the best solution

Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:06:05PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > > 2.3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts says: > > "Prompting may be accomplished by hand, or by communicating with a > > program, such as debconf, which c

Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-12 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:06:05PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > Package: debian-policy > 2.3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts says: > "Prompting may be accomplished by hand, or by communicating with a > program, such as debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration > management spec

Bug#184521: 2.4.3 exaggeration of bad Makefile edits

2003-03-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor 2.4.3 says: "This makes it impossible for someone else to later reconfigure the package." This is an incorrect statement and is likely an intentional exaggeration. A statement like: "This could make it very difficult for someone else to later reconfigure the

Bug#184518: footnote 6

2003-03-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor Footnote 6 says: "4% of Debian packages [see Debconf stats] currently use debconf" Two minor bugs, but should I really bother submitting different bug reports? http://kitenet.net/programs/debconf/stats/ says: "Whups, you want to go here. " and points to htt

Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Package: debian-policy 2.3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts says: "Prompting may be accomplished by hand, or by communicating with a program, such as debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration management specification, version 2 or higher." The grammar is ambiguous and "by hand" is va

Bug#184368: sematic error, 2.3.1 The package name

2003-03-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:57:07PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > > > Section 2.3.1 says: > > "Package names must consist of lower case letters (a-z), digits (0-9), > > plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and periods (.)." > > > >

Bug#184368: sematic error, 2.3.1 The package name

2003-03-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:48:11PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:57:07PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > > > Section 2.3.1 says: > > "Package names must consist of lower case letters (a-z), digits (0-9), > > plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and

Bug#184368: sematic error, 2.3.1 The package name

2003-03-12 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:48:11PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:57:07PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > > > Section 2.3.1 says: > > "Package names must consist of lower case letters (a-z), digits (0-9), > > plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and

Re: Versioned Symbols

2003-03-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > dlopening with RTDL_GLOBAL, where there is an option to > > dlopen with RTDL_LOCAL. > > hmm... how does that behaves when the conflict is two or more libs down the > chain from the PoV of the stuff being dlopened? I have thought that symbols are resolved locally, as to allow modules to be li