Re: Shared libs in non-standard locations

1999-12-20 Thread Joel Klecker
At 12:26 -0500 1999-12-19, Raul Miller wrote: >A better question is: what's a library? libtool's documentation describes libraries as "programs with multiple entry points, and more formally defined interfaces." >The simplest constraint on policy would be to label the shared library >stuff as appl

Re: Shared libs in non-standard locations

1999-12-19 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 01:28:21PM -0800, Darren wrote: > It's a good point. How should we rewrite section 4.2 to say that it > only refers to public libraries rather than internal libraries? And > which parts do and don't? What about compiled Perl modules, for > example? I don't know the answe

Re: Shared libs in non-standard locations

1999-12-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 04:16:50PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On 14 Dec 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > > > What about all the regulations we put on shared-libs. If they're not in > > one of the key directories, do we care? Policy seems to indicate that > > there is no exemption for these b

Re: Shared libs in non-standard locations

1999-12-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 14 Dec 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > What about all the regulations we put on shared-libs. If they're not in > one of the key directories, do we care? Policy seems to indicate that > there is no exemption for these beasties. IMHO our policy guidelines for packages represent common 'good pra

RE: Shared libs in non-standard locations

1999-12-14 Thread Darren
w.. that's against the rules and WRT lintian, I'm policy-pedantic. -Original Message- From: Julian Gilbey To: Darren Benham Cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org Sent: 12/14/99 1:03 PM Subject: Re: Shared libs in non-standard locations On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:07:32AM -0800,

Re: Shared libs in non-standard locations

1999-12-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:07:32AM -0800, Darren Benham wrote: [Please wrap your lines!] > What about all the regulations we put on shared-libs. If they're > not in one of the key directories, do we care? Policy seems to > indicate that there is no exemption for these beasties. It's a good point

Re: Shared libs in non-standard locations

1999-12-14 Thread Darren Benham
What about all the regulations we put on shared-libs. If they're not in one of the key directories, do we care? Policy seems to indicate that there is no exemption for these beasties.

Re: Shared libs in non-standard locations

1999-12-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:05:20PM -0500, Franklin Belew wrote: > Section 4.3 of policy says nothing about the location of libraries. > Section 12 of packaging manual says nothing about the location of libraries > > I would like to know what rules there are (if any) about shared libraries > in loc

Shared libs in non-standard locations

1999-12-14 Thread Franklin Belew
Section 4.3 of policy says nothing about the location of libraries. Section 12 of packaging manual says nothing about the location of libraries I would like to know what rules there are (if any) about shared libraries in locations not mentions in /etc/ld.so.conf or what debian considers "standard