Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:38:10PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >--- orig/policy.sgml > >+++ mod/policy.sgml > >@@ -8450,6 +8450,39 @@ > > be present in the future. > > > > > >+ > >+ > >+ Manual pages that are installed under > >+ /u

Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:15:31PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:11:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm not sure how to word this in policy though; do you have any > > suggestions? > > How about: > > "It is therefore not yet recommended to install UTF-8 encoded pages

Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Colin Watson wrote: Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist (...) --- 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 +

Bug#209008: parallel building: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS or DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL

2007-09-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Robert Millan] > Actually, you might be interested in knowing that this is possible right now, > without any change in dpkg-buildpackage, by using command injection via > gain-root-command: > > dpkg-buildpackage -r"fakeroot make -j 2 -f" I doubt that works in the general case, only if the tim

Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-03 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Colin, it becomes now slightly off topic but let me reply a last time to this bug report. On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:11:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:30:39AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > Vietnamese is an odd case. In the long term, I think being explicit > (vi.UTF

Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

2007-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:30:39AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > 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

Bug#209008: parallel building: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS or DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL

2007-09-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:10:27PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Would still be nice to do this a bit more cleanly ;-). I'll send a patch to > dpkg maintainers. See bug #440636 -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (

Bug#209008: parallel building: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS or DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL

2007-09-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 12:44:06PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > 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