Re: Bug#54985: debian-policy: handling of shared libraries

2000-01-17 Thread Roman Hodek
> And creates a symlink. ..but not for man pages in /usr/share/man. > a) this seems a pretty minor problem, given people will be able to > read /usr/man/foo and /usr/doc/foo The man in slink doesn't look at /usr/share/man ! > b) Adding two lines of code to debian/rules is so mind-blowingly > e

Re: Bug#54985: debian-policy: handling of shared libraries

2000-01-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:07:53PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Roman Hodek writes: > > > > > debhelper only affects the .deb file, and it should produce correct > > > .debs regardless of version. "mybe some compilers etc." seems like > > > FUD to me. > > > > Wrong. Take as example that t

Re: Bug#54985: debian-policy: handling of shared libraries

2000-01-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
Roman Hodek writes: > > > debhelper only affects the .deb file, and it should produce correct > > .debs regardless of version. "mybe some compilers etc." seems like > > FUD to me. > > Wrong. Take as example that the potato debhelper installs docs into > /usr/share/doc, and the stable one t

Re: Bug#54985: debian-policy: handling of shared libraries

2000-01-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
[Please followup these thoughts to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to -policy] I wonder if apt-get could perhaps be enhanced to allow something like: apt-get --compile --dist=unstable foo Then you download just the unstable source and compile it locally. Would that be of help? apt.sources would have to al

Re: Bug#54985: debian-policy: handling of shared libraries

2000-01-14 Thread Roman Hodek
> debhelper only affects the .deb file, and it should produce correct > .debs regardless of version. "mybe some compilers etc." seems like > FUD to me. Wrong. Take as example that the potato debhelper installs docs into /usr/share/doc, and the stable one to /usr/doc. Same for man pages... > OK,

Re: Bug#54985: debian-policy: handling of shared libraries

2000-01-14 Thread Brian May
> "Roland" == Roland Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roland> - If we don't have enough machines available for the above Roland> idea, it would be nice, if someone would create packages Roland> named slink-buildenv, potato-buildenv and so on, which Roland> create a changer