Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file

2010-07-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:51:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > This means that any package tagged multiarch needs special care to > > insure it's actually installable in the face of binNMUs, relative to our > > current practices. Either we stop including binNMU changelog entries in > > the pack

Bug#445203: debian-policy: 10.8. Log files: /etc/logrotate.d/ preferred

2010-07-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:22:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 08:59:24 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> +postrotate > >> +[ -f /var/run/foo.pid ] && kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/foo.pid` > >> +endscript > > Probably better to recommen

Bug#509933: versioning SONAMEs of shared libraries is not clearly recommended

2010-07-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 05:09:05PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:10:51AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Russ Allbery writes: > > > I read through the shared library sections of Policy a few times last > > > night and can't find anywhere where Policy unambiguously recommen

Bug#509933: versioning SONAMEs of shared libraries is not clearly recommended

2010-07-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:10:51AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > - > - Run-time shared libraries > + > + A shared library must be uniquely identified by an SONAME > + attribute stored in its dynamic section. This wording is going to cause problems down the line. $ objdump -