Patch for MultiarchCross

2011-03-22 Thread Wookey
The Multiarch specification only covers libraries and does not specifically deal with include files. To make multiarch useful for cross-building as well as co-installation of libraries we need to install headers to /usr/include/, which needs an FHS exception. Here is a patch to policy to allow

Processed: Re: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org Setting user to debian-pol...@packages.debian.org (was jrnie...@gmail.com). > usertags 619275 = informative Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger There were no usertags set.

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-03-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > A not-so-recent bug report, #230308, raised the issue of how a long-running > program which would be broken (until restart) by a major Perl package upgrade > (eg from 5.10 to 5.12) could be notified of such a restart. There was a rough > consensus on that bug report tha

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-03-22 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Dear Policy maintainers, A not-so-recent bug report, #230308, raised the issue of how a long-running program which would be broken (until restart) by a major Perl package upgrade (eg from 5.10 to 5.12) could be notified of such a restart. There was a rough

Bug#619186: Fix multiarch FHS exception for i386 in light of recent discussions

2011-03-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > Attached is a patch to update policy's FHS exception to reflect the current > consensus among the gcc, eglibc, and dpkg maintainers around the paths to > use for implementation and the interface packages should use to query these > paths. [...] > From 1f