Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-02 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:31:45PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:24:43PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:02:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > + is an ISO-639 language code, must be encoded with the usual > > > + legacy (non-UTF-8) character

Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:24:43PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:02:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > --- orig/policy.sgml > > +++ mod/policy.sgml > > @@ -8450,6 +8450,39 @@ > > be present in the future. > > > > > > + > > + > > + Manual pages

Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-02 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:02:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > --- orig/policy.sgml > +++ mod/policy.sgml > @@ -8450,6 +8450,39 @@ > be present in the future. > > > + > + > + Manual pages that are installed under > + /usr/share/man/ll, where ll Please

Re: New optional debian/rules targets for consistency of patch systems?

2007-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 04:27:27AM -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: > I'd like to get an opinion on a proposal for several new debian/rules targets > I've been thinking of for a while now. The motivation here is that the > different patch systems have differing targets required for applying or > u

Bug#209008: parallel building: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS or DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL

2007-09-02 Thread Robert Millan
I think you're overengineering. There are basicaly two use cases: a- Developer building a package for a specific purpose (e.g. testing an improvement), wanting to speed up this specific build. b- Buildd admin wanting to speed up build of the overall archive [1]. (a) can be archieved s

New optional debian/rules targets for consistency of patch systems?

2007-09-02 Thread Daniel Schepler
I'd like to get an opinion on a proposal for several new debian/rules targets I've been thinking of for a while now. The motivation here is that the different patch systems have differing targets required for applying or unapplying patches, which is highly annoying when trying to debug packages