Re: Bug#328951: Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)

2005-09-18 Thread Ben Finney
On 18-Sep-2005, Christoph Berg wrote: > > - There is no Build-Depends-Arch; the autobuilders will > - only need the Build-Depends if they know how to build > - only build-arch and binary-arch. Anyone building the > + Build-Depends is essentially "

Re: Reason for 10.2 -fPIC requirement

2005-09-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 05:28:44PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > Hi, > > Policy 10.2: "The shared version of a library must be compiled with > -fPIC". > > This is a "must", but I couldn't find where the requirement comes from > (I only checked the changelog). > > I'm currently trying

Re: Reason for 10.2 -fPIC requirement

2005-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 05:28:44PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > Policy 10.2: "The shared version of a library must be compiled with > -fPIC". > This is a "must", but I couldn't find where the requirement comes from > (I only checked the changelog). > I'm currently trying to resolve Debian bu

Re: Reason for 10.2 -fPIC requirement

2005-09-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 18, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would someone please sched some light on the origins of this > requirement? If this requirement is only to save memory in most cases, > would it be reasonable to permit building with -fPIC by changing this > "must" in a "should"? Not quite.

Reason for 10.2 -fPIC requirement

2005-09-18 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, Policy 10.2: "The shared version of a library must be compiled with -fPIC". This is a "must", but I couldn't find where the requirement comes from (I only checked the changelog). I'm currently trying to resolve Debian bug #268603 where mpeg2dec is built with -fPIC on i386 only.

Bug#328951: Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)

2005-09-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.2.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, the patch below clarifies the difference between Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep. The current policy section is hard to grasp; most new maintainers are confused by the information there. The information is of course co