Re: Migrating debian policy into a git repository

2008-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The next proposal was to have per-member topic branches -- in > other words, every team member opens a new branch for each topic they > are working in, using branch names like bug12345-manoj. This way, it > is easy to see who is working on

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2008-04-21 Thread Raphael Geissert
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: minor Quoting a portion of the current section 10.4: > Scripts may assume that /bin/sh implements the SUSv3 Shell Command > Language[62] plus the following additional features not mandated by > SUSv3:[63] Based on the results from the last archive

Bug#475101: obsolete linuxthreads requirement

2008-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it looks to me that _REENTRANT is only used to make some functions > like getlogin_r available. I believe that's correct, and the discussion at the last DebConf reached the same conclusion. I think this bit in Policy is obsolete. I already closed a L

Re: Fwd: Re: trap / kill

2008-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With Adam agreeing to make this private conversation public, please read > below and comment. If necessary I don't mind a report to be filled > against the package. Please open a bug against debian-policy for this issue so that we can track the disc

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-21 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:54:32PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:02:20PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > How is this different with _any_ dependency on the system? Do you > > suggest that iceweasel should drop its libgtk dependency, because users > > might want to use the

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-21 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:09:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I would say they are making it very inconvenient, but still not > forcing you. Push comes to shove, you can still build depend on a > specific version, and use an explicit -L. That is correct, of course. But if you're u

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-21 Thread Jakob Bohm
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:58:47PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 22:12 +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:12:45PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > > > What about these clauses as a P