Bug#70634: Typo in policy manual

2000-08-31 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.2.1.0 On 2830T184956-0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:51:47PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > The definition is the following: > > > > It is not be necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships > > on a

Re: Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I am also ambivalent about sections like 4.1 "Syntax of >> control files". That section could be said to belong in policy, as >> dictating the standard format of control files, and any ch

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-31 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Which is just a stupid pain in the ass. I had to track through three > different references and finally install the "build-depends" package to > find out what I could leave out of by "Build-Depends" stanza. It would > *much* easier

Bug#70643: debian-policy: [PATCH] Typo in build-essential

2000-08-31 Thread Julian Gilbey
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.2.1.0 - Forwarded message from Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:49:56 -0400 From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato Mail-Followup-To:

Re: Picking apart the packaging manual (long)

2000-08-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Well, part of the difficulty in classifying this material is > that one has to make the judement call on whether the things being > referred to are supposed to be standard API's that shall not be > lightly changed, and thus viable policy items, or they

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-31 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2830T234249+0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Which is just a stupid pain in the ass. I had to track through three > > different references and finally install the "build-depends" package to > > find out what I could leave out o

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-31 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:29:30PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > Which is just a stupid pain in the ass. I had to track through three > > > different references and finally install the "build-depends" package to > > > find out what I could leave out of by "Build-Depends" stanza. It wou