Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.

2001-04-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:34:43PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote: > proposals. (Though in the section about seconding, it makes especial > reference to "registered Debian developers". Perhaps for the purposes of > getting this bug taken care of, simply being An Interested User counts > for proposals. If

Re: Old proposals again (Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.)

2001-04-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:52:10AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > Wichert, I think "Geez, again?" is the incorrect response to Daniel's > > > mail. Bugs #42399 and #65345 against debian-policy have been outstanding > > > for 1 year and 268 days and 322 days. #65345 even has a patch against > > >

Re: Old proposals again (Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.)

2001-04-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Josip Rodin wrote: >Nobody explicitely said they second it, and nobody explicitely said they >object. > >Several people (mostly maintainers of packages against which lintian barfs >due to this) have said they would like this change in Policy, but not >"officially", even though I've aske

Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.

2001-04-27 Thread Josip Rodin
(missed this mail in my enormous inbox, sorry :) On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:34:43PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote: > > They need to be exempt from the rule for shlibs file, too. > > > > See my attempt in #66023... > > Aye, too true. It may be easier for the proposal to not decide the paths > involve

Bug#66023: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.

2001-04-27 Thread Josip Rodin
I'm sending this to the bug address so it is recorded :o) - Forwarded message from Oliver Elphick - Delivery-date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:50:15 +0200 X-URL: http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver To: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-policy@lists.debian.or

Bug#66023: [olly@lfix.co.uk: Re: Old proposals again (Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.)]

2001-04-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
- Forwarded message from Oliver Elphick - Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:48:12 +0100 From: "Oliver Elphick" Subject: Re: Old proposals again (Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.) To: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-policy@lists.debian.org

CVS jdg: * Make # in closes: regexp optional, as in latest dpkg-dev

2001-04-27 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: jdg Fri Apr 27 07:53:26 PDT 2001 Modified files: . : policy.sgml Log message: * Make # in closes: regexp optional, as in latest dpkg-dev

Re: CVS jdg: * Make # in closes: regexp optional, as in latest dpkg-dev

2001-04-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
debian-policy@lists.debian.org wrote: > CVSROOT: /cvs/debian-policy > Module name: debian-policy > Changes by: jdg Fri Apr 27 07:53:26 PDT 2001 > > Modified files: > . : policy.sgml > > Log message: > * Make # in closes: regexp optional, as in latest dpkg-dev So

Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.

2001-04-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I'd prefer if people seconded the diff in #66023 :) and then we can refine > that stuff further if necessary. > agreed, let's get this solved. (Seconded).

Bug#66023: PROPOSAL] Re: Shared libs vs. plugins.

2001-04-27 Thread Ove Kaaven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can any developer second policy proposals? If so, I second this one too... (I have a package libwine that puts dynamically-loaded stuff into /usr/lib/wine) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75

[retracted] sarnold's policy diff for .so files

2001-04-27 Thread Seth Arnold
Greetings; I am pleased that Josip's proposal has received several seconds. (Though I don't think many were signed -- I am fairly certain that they do need to be signed to count!) Since my goal is to get this thing taken care of as easily as possible, I am retracting both my policy proposals so th

Re: Bug#94827: tktable; Build-Depends: debhelper

2001-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Greenland wrote: > *Nobody* can keep up with joeyh. :-) You may find it easier now that I'm stuck behind this modem. -- see shy jo

Re: Bug#94827: tktable; Build-Depends: debhelper

2001-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Greenland wrote: > Ain't gonna happen. It's been discussed before. The problem is that most > debhelper Build-Depends actually need to be versioned[1], which won't > work with build-essential. > > [1] I personally am not convinced this is the case (simply expecting > that the build-essentials

Bug#94995: PROPOSAL] Clarifying instructions on linking man pages

2001-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > - /usr/share/man). > + /usr/share/man). If you do not create any links > + (whether symlinks, hard links, or .so directives) in the > + filesystem to the alternate names of the manpage, then you > + should not rely on man finding your manpage > +