Bug#148941: marked as done (Objection to change made in debian policy)

2006-04-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:46:50 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Closing out ancient, fixed bugs has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your re

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:16:40AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:18:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Chris Waters wrote: > > > > > > or, more simply: > > > > > > build binary-arch binary-indep binary clea

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:18:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Chris Waters wrote: > > > > or, more simply: > > > > build binary-arch binary-indep binary clean: > > debian/myrules $@ > > > > Or, even simpler: > > > > %: > > de

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-05 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:18:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Chris Waters wrote: > > or, more simply: > > build binary-arch binary-indep binary clean: > debian/myrules $@ > > Or, even simpler: > > %: > debian/myrules $@ The latter might be problematic, if we re

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Heath wrote: > Or, even simpler: > > %: > debian/myrules $@ The unfortunate problem with this is that make has the nasty habit of changing the exitcode. If myrules exits with a non-zero exitcode you will see make exiting with a completely different (although still non-zero)

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-05 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:18:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Chris Waters wrote: > > or, more simply: > > build binary-arch binary-indep binary clean: > debian/myrules $@ > > Or, even simpler: > > %: > debian/myrules $@ To me, this demonstrate one of the proper

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-04 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Chris Waters wrote: or, more simply: build binary-arch binary-indep binary clean: debian/myrules $@ Or, even simpler: %: debian/myrules $@ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-04 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without disagreeing with your proposal, I'd like to point out that > there seems to be a fairly trivial workaround: > > #! /usr/bin/make -f > build: > debian/myrules build > binary-arch: > debian/myrules binary-arch > binar

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-03 Thread Chris Waters
First of all, Wichert, you set "Mail-Followup-To" to "debian-policy@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]". I don't think that followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are appropriate. (I'm not even sure that a CC to the policy list was necessary, since bugs against policy seem to automatically go to the pol

Processed: Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 148941 wishlist Bug#148941: Objection to change made in debian policy Severity set to `wishlist'. > merge 88029 88111 Bug#88029: allow rules file to be non-makefile Bug#88111: [PROPOSAL] Allow debian/rules to not be a makefile M

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
severity 148941 wishlist merge 88029 88111 merge 88029 148941 thanks Hi, Do you have anything new to add to the previous times this has come up? Surely you know it is bad form to keep opening new bug reports every time a notion strikes ones fancy? You lose all the arguments already

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:48:41PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Package: debian-policy > > + > + This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the > + package-specific recipes for compiling the package and > + building binary package(s) out of the sourc

Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Package: debian-policy In version 1.23 of the policy.sgml file Manoj made a few changes that were related to incorporating the packaging manual into policy. Since the packaging manual did not have policy status this should not have changed anything in policy, certainly not without a clear consens