Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2014-05-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t realise you can second your own proposal, but I'm happy to second my proposal in that case, so seconded too. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2014-05-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Aurelien Jarno > On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 09:08:58AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Aurelien Jarno > > > > > How can we progress on this bug? We now have bugs #720777, #720778 and > > > #720780 which ask for /usr/lib to be created if /lib exists.

Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2014-05-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
esumably blocked on more seconds. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87tx90927p@xoog.err.no

Bug#591791: [PATCH] Document generic and upstart-specific init-system requirements

2012-03-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
of fallout. I'm not at all convinced invoke-rc.d is the right interface for this, partially due to you easily ending up with cycles such as seen in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635777 where postfix depends on network being up, but the network isn't considered up until

Bug#591791: [PATCH] Document generic and upstart-specific init-system requirements

2012-03-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ation. I wonder if something like the emacsen-hooks mechanism would make sense or if we should consider the rcN.d links to be authoritative and it being up to the init system to make sure it respects the state set by the symlinks. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just pi

Bug#591791: systemd point of view

2011-10-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ow to handle all of sysvinit, upstart and systemd or if we want each init system to ship their own. From the patch, it looks like each init system should ship their own, but that it still must keep compatibility with all other implementations. Also, I'm a bit annoyed about you grabbing /etc/init,

Bug#604397: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
st for this too. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2011-02-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Package: debian-policy ]] Steve Langasek | On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 07:02:33PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > ]] Yaroslav Halchenko | | > | please do not slap me too hard (only so that I feel your warm carrying | > | touch): | | > | is there a rationale for: on amd64 Debian sy

Bug#591791: systemd point of view

2011-02-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e added to the insserv configuration file. We should either require init implementations to allow providing the standardised facility names or we should put that information somewhere in a a neutral location and format so all init implementations can make use of it. Best regards, -- Tollef Fog Hee

Re: initial packages with multiarch paths

2010-02-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek | We don't really want extra -L options passed to the build for every | library that's installed to the multiarch lib dir. Does pkgconfig | filter these out? Not yet. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are --

Re: Clarify rationale for ‘debian/rules ’ shebang line

2009-10-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
r/bin/make -f» too. There's no reason to mandate one particular style of hashbangs. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
the other changing. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
for), you need to use pkg-config. pkg-config allows you to, say, move all the headers from each package into its own namespace, like how GTK+ and Glib does it and you can then rename that later if you so wish, without causing FTBFS-es. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky abo

Bug#329762: Relaxation and documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint

2005-10-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* (Marco d'Itri) | Actually I am almost sure that there are some situations in which PIC | static libraries are useful, but I cannot provide examples right now. If you need to integrate them into another .so/build reduced libraries, like what mklibs does for d-i. -- Tollef Fog

Bug#291026: Executing a command, if present, without 'command not found' message, if not present

2005-01-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Thomas Hood | The following (bash-only) function seems to have the desired properties. If it's bash-only, wouldn't using bash + command -v be easier? :) -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's

Bug#218530: Conditional command execution

2005-01-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
do what command -v does. (Actually, it does a bit more, as it can do stuff like: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > findcommand foo bar baz xterm /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm (which is _very_ useful for me when I'm doing something approaching per-user cross

Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

2003-01-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Colin Walters | On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 19:22, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > And any hard coded scripts using -d norsk (or -d bokmal) for getting | > Norwegian ispell output. | | Hm, but if the filename is already UTF-8, what is the problem? It isn't in stable, which means that I w

Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

2003-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Colin Walters | On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 13:15, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > * Colin Walters | > | > | Note that in my proposal UTF-8 filenames are only mandatory (a "must") | > | for files *included directly* in Debian packages or created by | > | maintainer scripts. Si

Bug#89867: Images should be available to all

2003-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ext upload of mailman. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

2003-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e a thing. You are wrong in this regard. inorwegian includes a file called bokmål (which, ISTR, has symlinks for both ISO8859-1 and UTF8) -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded

2003-01-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
fining alternative changelog formats | | - -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user frien

Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded

2003-01-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
cause a lot of packages (you know how many?) to be instantly buggy. If you change the «must» to «should», I'll second the proposal. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Bug#168435: debian-policy: Remove the requirement to install static libraries

2002-12-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
as a static library and | > usage of static libraries should be deprecated except for a few | > specific cases. | | I'd be curious to know of an example of a "modern library" which doesn't | work well when compiled statically. libc6 fuc

Bug#160776: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] debconf spec updates to conform with reality

2002-09-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
d cdebconf better substitutes for each other. Seconded. - -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky

Bug#89867: Status of webserver changes?

2002-09-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Manoj Srivastava | Is that indeed the case? If not, we have to wait before we can | include this bit in policy. No, it is not the case. Yet. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
uldn't be done. | | Did all of you manage to miss sed's y command? | | #!/bin/sh | sed "y/$1/$2/" I'm not saying I'm a sed guru, but : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > echo ABCD | tr A-Z a-z abcd : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > echo ABCD | sed 'y/A-Z/a-z/' aBCD doe

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
root root 395048 apr 27 18:34 /bin/zsh-4.0.4* $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/csh lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 mai 2 15:25 /etc/alternatives/csh -> /bin/bsd-csh* so, csh and zsh are both in /bin -- Tollef Fog Heen,&#x

Bug#89867: 89867: retitle, severity and comment

2002-02-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 severity 89867 normal retitle 89867 [AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible images thanks Also, please note that the diff is reversed; it should be obvious, but apparently I did something strange. - -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user

Bug#89867: [PROPOSED] Where to place web-accessible images

2001-03-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
/usr/share/images/package - and can be referred to as - - http://localhost/images/<package>/<filename>; - Web Document Root (btw, should proposals be GPG signed? policy-prosess doesn't say anythin

Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
es create sub-directories, so that Mailman will have /usr/share/images/mailman/logo.jpg which will be referred to as http://server/images/mailman/logo.jpg . -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.