Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file

2010-07-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong writes: > On Sun, 04 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Here's the question: should we say flat-out that both packages must >> either be architecture-dependent or architecture-independent and then >> say that the dependency must use (= ), or should we allow what >> I was trying to all

Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file

2010-07-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Here's the question: should we say flat-out that both packages must > either be architecture-dependent or architecture-independent and > then say that the dependency must use (= ), or should we > allow what I was trying to allow above and then document, su

Bug#436105: suggestion to add GPL-1 as a common licence

2010-07-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > > I therefore propose adding GPL version 1 to the list of licenses said by > > Policy to be in common-licenses and asking Santiago to include a copy in > > base-files. I'm not including a diff since it would just create merge >

Bug#475101: obsolete linuxthreads requirement

2010-07-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:20:43AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Hm. There is a small risk that the above will be interpreted to mean > that e.g. pthreads should be enabled if supported by the library, but > that is not always the best solution -- consider if a library supports > native linki

Bug#475101: obsolete linuxthreads requirement

2010-07-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery writes: >> >>Libraries should be built with threading support and to be >>thread-safe if the library supports this. >> > > Yes, that's what I'm proposing -- at a guess, you may have misread the > diff? > >>> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml >>> index