Re: Dropping/splitting (proper) i386 support

2003-05-01 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Fri, 02 May 2003 12:58:41 +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:17:32 +0200, > Matthias Klose wrote: > > What are the steps to be taken to move to i486-linux? Has this to be > > decided on debian-policy? > > > > Would it be ok to drop i386-linux until somebody starts it again? >

Re: Dropping/splitting (proper) i386 support

2003-05-01 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:17:32 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > What are the steps to be taken to move to i486-linux? Has this to be > decided on debian-policy? > > Would it be ok to drop i386-linux until somebody starts it again? How about using hwcap? So, libstdc++ (i486-i6/786) put on /usr/lib, l

Re: Bug#191369: [PROPOSAL] encourage packagers to systematically prevent mis-linked libraries

2003-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 10:18:07PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:20:13PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Not linking shared libraries against the other libraries they use also > > subverts the effectiveness of the shlibs system. Therefore, I believe > > Policy should b

Re: Bug#191369: [PROPOSAL] encourage packagers to systematically prevent mis-linked libraries

2003-05-01 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 10:18:07PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > I remembered to have read something to that effect when packaging > my first shared library, but I cannot find it today. Indeed. I thought we've had this policy since the libc5 -> libc6 conversion. Did we regress? Richard Braakma

Bug#191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted

2003-05-01 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Debian policy, For clarification, here the quote from the original mail that start this thread. On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > As per the discussion on debian-devel, I am filing this bug with patch > to have base-files create the /run directory. ... > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 a

Re: Bug#191369: [PROPOSAL] encourage packagers to systematically prevent mis-linked libraries

2003-05-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:20:13PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Not linking shared libraries against the other libraries they use also > subverts the effectiveness of the shlibs system. Therefore, I believe > Policy should both be explicit about the need for such linking, and > provide recommend

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Re: Dropping/splitting (proper) i386 support

2003-05-01 Thread Dale E Martin
(Sorry to follow-up to my own post) > - All of the x86 compatible Intel processors > - All of the x86 compatible AMD processors > - All of the x86 compatible Cyrix processors > - All of the x86 compatible VIA processors > - All of the x86 compatible TransMeta processors > - The National Semicondu

Re: Dropping/splitting (proper) i386 support

2003-05-01 Thread Dale E Martin
> > I am in favor of dropping the 386 altogether, I missed the beginning of this discussion (perhaps it was on -devel only?), so sorry if this has been brought up already. I've got a machine with a VIA C3 processor, which I believe does not support the "cmov" opcode unlike most modern x86 impleme

Re: Bug#191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted

2003-05-01 Thread Thomas Hood
The libc resolver and bind's named are indeed flawed and djbdns looks like a better way to access DNS. However, resolv.conf and named.conf handling still needs to be fixed for the sake of those applications that use the libc resolver. I've fixed the handling on my own system using the resolvconf

Re: Bug#191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted

2003-05-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 01 May 2003 09:46:17 +0200, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 00:22, Bill Allombert wrote: >> We should focus on /run for now. > OK, I'm glad you are going to focus on this. > It looks like you will need to get policy changed before the > maintainers of the affect

Re: Bug#191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted

2003-05-01 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 00:22, Bill Allombert wrote: > We should focus on /run for now. OK, I'm glad you are going to focus on this. It looks like you will need to get policy changed before the maintainers of the affected packages will implement /run/. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted

2003-05-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 12:22:04AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > For my part, I find the whole resolv.conf concept flawed since > changing it does not affect running process, so I always use a proxy > DNS. Yes, I concur. Not that this is the solution to your current problem, but you might be int