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

2011-04-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:21:59PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Bootstrapping > > The current ld.so doesn't yet know about the final path (on i386), so > > libraries can't switch to using it or they'll fail to be found by the > > run

Processed: Re: Fix multiarch FHS exception for i386 in light of recent discussions

2011-04-01 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). > tags 619186 = Bug #619186 [debian-policy] Fix multiarch FHS exception for i386 in light of recent discussions Removed tag(s) patc

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

2011-04-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org tags 619186 = usertags 619186 = normative seconded quit Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:21:59PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Steve Langasek wrote: >>> If you think this is important to document in policy anyway, I can prepare a >>> pat

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-04-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > So this raises two issues: > > 1) should non-7bit characters in filenames be allowed > > Yes, I don't see a good reason to forbid them. In particular when we are > in an international

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-04-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:58 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Dear Developpers, > > there are a small numbers of packages that ship files with non-7bit > characters in filenames. > $ apt-file search -l -x '[\x80-\xff]' > > aspell-ca > aspell-es > aspell-is > canorus > console-tools > dvb-apps > ggz

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-04-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:02:49AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > First this might force users to use UTF-8 locale. While this is the > > default, this is not > > mandatory in Debian. I know users that stays with ISO8859-1 because they > > have a lo

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

2011-04-01 Thread Niko Tyni
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:31:24PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > > While I do think this is a nice solution, I've got a couple of concerns: > > > > - is this overkill? Would it be enough for the long running daemons to just > > re

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-04-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > First this might force users to use UTF-8 locale. While this is the default, > this is not > mandatory in Debian. I know users that stays with ISO8859-1 because they have > a lot of > text files in that encoding. > > Until the C.UTF-8 proposal is impl