Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-13 Thread Jakob Bohm
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:06:20AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:12:12PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:06:05PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > ... > > --- policy.sgml~ 2003-03-13 02:0

Re: Versioned Symbols

2003-03-13 Thread Sam Hartman
dlopening RTLD_LOCAL does not actually solve the problem. Symbols from the namespace of the application can override symbols pulled in by the libraries. RTLD_GROUP, not supported by glibc, comes fairly close to being sufficient in most cases.

Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-13 Thread Chris Waters
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:43:42AM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > > Oh, please. You're saying that the only *possible* interpretation of > > "by hand" is "by running a program named hand?" That's silly. > > (Especially since there is no such program

Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:43:42AM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > Keep in mind that policy is intended to help us make a better system, > not to allow the filing of whimsical bug reports. > Not an intention

Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:12:12PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:06:05PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > My intelligence tells me that if "by hand" is not replaced then

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-03-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:21:45AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > Policy reads: > > "All libraries must have a shared version in the lib* package and a > static version in the lib*-dev package" I'd just like to note that I've changed this text (and most of the other stuff about li

Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar

2003-03-13 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:12:12PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:06:05PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > > The grammar is ambiguous > > Common sense makes the resolution of this purported ambiguity pretty > > clear.

Bug#184518: footnote 6

2003-03-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:30:12PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > "4% of Debian packages [see Debconf stats] currently use debconf" > > http://kitenet.net/programs/debconf/stats/ says: > "Whups, you want to go here. " and points to > http://auric.debian.org/~joeyh/debconf-stats/ Actually, lat