Cross-compilers

[ Moving to -policy ]. Lintian warns about the use of /usr/i386-gnu as a non-standard directory in the gcc-i386-gnu package I maintain, and it also warns about the use of /usr/m68k-linux in the gcc-m68k-linux package maintained by Martin Mitchell. These packages are cross-compilers and the paths

Making the Info system FHS-compliant

How to make the Debian info system FHS-compliant. Background: == Mandated by the FHS standard, the system should keep the info files in /usr/share/info rather than /usr/info, "some day in the future". The way to do this may depend on the d

Bug#28747: [PROPOSED] GPL moved to /usr/share/common-licenses

I submitted this bug some time ago, as a reminder. Now that slink is released, I think it's time to make it policy. Policy currently says: Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic license, the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL should refer to the files /usr/doc/copyright/BSD,

Bug#28747: PROPOSED] GPL moved to /usr/share/common-licenses

On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:08:49PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > I'm now looking for seconds for this proposal. Seconded. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Good Times are back again! http://www.iki.fi/gaia/zan

Pointing to UNIX98 standards from some doc

I think that it would be very wise to indicate how developers can find POSIX standards documentation. I am not sure how closely the UNIX98 standards match POSIX, but it is possibly a better start than nothing. I would suggest adding a footnote to section 4.4 of the Policy doc (although not part o