Bug#268377: (fwd) Re: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases (Was: Split System/Cpu for architecture handling)

2005-01-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Drat, reply to list was not what I had to do. Sorry about this. - Forwarded message from Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Guillem Jover wrote: > The idea is to introduce architecture aliases, they will only take [...] > I've a added as well a new op

Re: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases (Was: Split System/Cpu for architecture handling)

2005-01-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Guillem Jover wrote: > The idea is to introduce architecture aliases, they will only take [...] > I've a added as well a new option (-n normalize) to dpkg-architecture > so Maintainers can use it to get the alias expansions. Try it to see > the results. The (only) problem I c

Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:45:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > type-handling already does all you ever want. Except: - its not in build-essential - its not integrated into dpkg or the build system So it may be fine, it doesn't actually do anything useful. If a pre-existing program t

Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Greg Norris
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:29:12PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Greg: Ease of adding, and potentional negative benefits would be very > nice to have, and if it's going to be in policy, for lintian a way to > check for it. Purpose: PT_GNU_STACK is used to mark binaries which require a

Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Greg Norris
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:46:30AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > The recommended practice has always been not to submit bug reports for > things that would result in a lot of bugs being filed. That is massive > bug filing, so it should be discussed first. Just to clarify, I never intended (and sti

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2005-01-24 Thread Francisca Ingram
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Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:50:17PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On another thread, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Could we automatically define some @linux@ or @any-i386@ variables the > >> same way shlidbs or other substitutions work? > > > >

Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:13:07PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > > Yes

Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Yes, I understand that, and I mostly agree. Now please write a lintian > > warning for PT_GNU_STACK. Mass bug filing me even before

Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On another thread, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Could we automatically define some @linux@ or @any-i386@ variables the >> same way shlidbs or other substitutions work? > > That's exactly what my patch tries to do, but extending the > recognised

Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:13:07PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > Yes, I understand that, and I mostly agree. Now please writ

Re: Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Santiago Vila wrote: >On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: >> >> As far as I can see, this is the _only_ bug report by Greg Norris on the >> PT_GNU_STACK issue! How can it be a mass bug filling ? > >Because many of the packages I maintain are also built on woody. Is there any good reason for

Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:45:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The idea is to introduce architecture aliases, they will only take > > effect on the source package and will get expanded when building > > the binary package so there's not ne

Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Yes, I understand that, and I mostly agree. Now please write a lintian > > warning for PT_GNU_STACK. Mass bug filing me even before

Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Yes, I understand that, and I mostly agree. Now please write a lintian > warning for PT_GNU_STACK. Mass bug filing me even before a lintian > warning exists is not polite. As far as

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2005-01-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 268377 replace Architecture field with Cpu And System fields (see > #291939) Bug#268377: Arch lines dont handle everything-linux that well Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian

Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:46:30AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > That's the correct explanation, yes. It has never been a bug to build > > a package using stable if the dependencies are compatible with the > > ones in testing. In this case, Pre

Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've been thinking on implementing this for a long time. As > Robert has presented an implementation to the Architecture > handling problem that does not convince me at all, so instead > of just sitting here and criticize his design I've coded mi

Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:46:30AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I made a statistic on my machine: > > 1341 are '-' and 76 are '?' so less than 1% has the problem. > > > > More importantly, there are all binaries that have been build a long > > t

Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases (Was: Split System/Cpu for architecture handling)

2005-01-24 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, I've been thinking on implementing this for a long time. As Robert has presented an implementation to the Architecture handling problem that does not convince me at all, so instead of just sitting here and criticize his design I've coded mine. The idea is to introduce architecture aliases, th