Bug#941198: In support of mandatory unit files

2019-12-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 08.12.19 09:54, Tobias Frost wrote: > Well, I was responding to a mail that suggested to make unit files > mandatory (which I read as then RC-buggy) and suggesting some lines > later to drop support for the sysv-generator and in this case it is > quite moot that policy can be ignored becau

Bug#941198: In support of mandatory unit files

2019-12-04 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, chiming in as I've been pointed to this bug: I agree with Ansgar in that adding unit files does not hurt sysvinit support in the least, provided we still get to ignore them. I'd even be in favour of making them mandatory (i.e. upgrading the lintian warning to an error), and I don't see how th

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:41:54PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > The difference between optional and extra is indeed mood today. But I > guess that is mostly because dh_make is making everything optional > instead of extra by default... Most packages can be "optional", since they don't in

Bug#457364: debian-policy: please reserve part of the package namespace for cross compilation

2007-12-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Why is it important that we do this? What are *-cross packages? The dpkg-cross utility generates development packages usable from cross compilers directly from native development packages by translating paths inside the package and adapting specific files. As a

Bug#457364: debian-policy: please reserve part of the package namespace for cross compilation

2007-12-21 Thread Simon Richter
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, following on my earlier informal probe, I'd like to request that package names matching "*-*-cross" be reserved for cross compilation; the asterisk stands for any non-empty sequence of characters legal in

Re: Reserving part of the package namespace

2007-12-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Russ Allbery wrote: TL;DR: "-*-cross" suffix on package names is proposed to be magic. windlord:~/web/eagle/reviews> apt-cache search -- '-cross$' aboot-cross - utility to create bootable ISO-Images for Linux/Alpha amiga-fdisk-cross - Partition editor for Amiga partitions (cross version)

Reserving part of the package namespace

2007-12-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I'd like to ask for the current naming scheme for packages related to cross compilation (the suffix listing the target architecture name and the string "cross", e.g. "-arm-cross" for ARM targets) to be explicitly codified in policy. While it is unlikely that packages stumble on that name

Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, apologies for not crossposting to -policy. Simon --- Begin Message --- Hi, while I must admit that I was not at the latest IRC meeting where this topic came up, I am now bitten by this problem. I maintain a bunch of kernel modules that can be either patched onto a kernel tree or bui

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-18 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > The program is not encumbered by encryption laws, so it doesn't need to go > > into non-US. Are you sure about that? I remember something about programs providing the necessary hooks to insert encryption software to be restricted too. Simon -- P