Re: Bug#595652: db packages failing to install...

leaving file in place without doing any configuration is asked, the package should provide a way to (re)answer to this question when it detects the configuration failed (ie dpkg-reconfigure would not fit here). Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj.

Bug#581352: debian-policy: libtool la files are still encouraged in the policy (contrary to the release goal)

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: normal Hi, At this end of "10.2 Libraries", there are several lines about including la files in binary packages, in particular: Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries should include the .la files in the -dev package This

Bug#323066: Nice blog post about transitional package

> http://baraujo.net/blog/?p=17 I added a comment (not yet moderated): the author does not talk about the problem of automatic/manually installed packages. Regards, Vincent > Haven't found a license but the author seems open source friendly and is > probably willing to add one

Bug#562506: init scripts should not use set -e

tion I often use in my scripts that avoid a "if then fi" Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial packages: http://moais.imag.fr/membres

Bug#555982: debian-policy: RPATH in binaries and shared libraries

there are other authorized paths, aren't there ? Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial packages: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean

Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Danjean writes: >> Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> I'm also not sure that I was right in my previous message about using >>> the exit status of tty, since it still does make sense to prompt if run >>> via ssh aptitude u

Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

active install. I had issue with "ssh host apt-get dist-upgrade". Now, I add the "-t" option to ssh so that apt-get got a tty Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A

Bug#426877: dpkg: Option "--oknodo" should be the default behaviour for "start-stop-daemon" (LSB specs)

ted or not, bugs filled or not, lintian complains or not, default behavior changed or not, ... is not really important for my point of view (and can be decided after lenny) *iff* the option already exists in lenny (else, we will have to wait for lenny+1) Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean

Bug#426877: dpkg: Option "--oknodo" should be the default behaviour for "start-stop-daemon" (LSB specs)

it script actions: >>> http://www.linux-foundation.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html > > That one's starting to get up there right next to "our priorities are our > users and free software" on my list of Facile Argument

Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

Kai Hendry wrote: > Many package descriptions have a Website: field already. It should just > be in policy too, to promote this good helpful practice. For now, it is in the developper reference (and it is ' Homepage:' at the end of the long description): http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-refer