se and the
harder it will become.
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or those who need the partial upgrade
consistency.
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o as Debian 3.0
and warn that partial upgrades/downgrades between 2.1 and 3.0 may have
nasty consequences in terms of FHS-issues? An incremented major
number would tend to suggest a major change.
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th a /usr/share/man-aware
/etc/manpath.config. I presume that the /var/lib/games->/var/games
move will be similar on that count.)
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"Potato" (and the earlier "Slink"), please use
> + /usr/doc whereever this document refers to
> + /usr/share/doc.
Seconded.
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>
> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> /usr/doc whereever this document refers to + /usr/share/doc.
>
> Julian> Seconded.
>
> Wusses. :-)
Huh? What does that mean?
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> On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 03:46:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Correct section 3.3 to take account of file-rc (#41547)
> > * Proposed by Julian Gilbey; seconded by Roland Rosenfeld.
> > * Part of policy doesn't make sense if file-rc is being used. This
> >
t;with a symlink FROM ...".)
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what several packages already do: install the docs in
/usr/doc/pkg and have /usr/doc/pkg-doc as a symlink to /usr/doc/pkg.
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> Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I would suggest what several packages already do: install the docs in
> > /usr/doc/pkg and have /usr/doc/pkg-doc as a symlink to /usr/doc/pkg.
>
> That only works if the pkg-doc package depends on pkg, which isn&#x
> On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 07:00:55AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > I would suggest what several packages already do: install the docs in
> > > > /usr/doc/pkg and have /usr/doc/pkg-doc as a symlink to
ld-debug target. But that's only a recommendation, you don't need
> to use it.
And note that we're only messing with debian/rules, which is
Debian-specific anyway. And Debian is committed to GNU make. This
shouldn't be a problem.
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m user, such as ftp or the like, they can have a
job in /etc/init.d.
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ckage.
Let's do it already.
Seconded.
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> Lintian is already ready to do rudimentary checks based on the debhelper
> implementation.
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 01:16:18AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > The technical committee has been asked to resolve the issue of what to do
> > > with /usr/share/doc
> > Policy still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d (#32448)
> > * Accepted.
> > * Proposed on 26 Jan 1999 by Brian Servis; seconded by Julian Gilbey
> > and Joey Hess.
> > * Change policy to refer to /etc/rcS.d instead of the old
> > /etc
status of proposals!
> FHS-compliant location of compiled examples (#42849)
> * Old.
> * Proposed by Joey Hess; seconded by Julian Gilbey and Chris Waters.
> * This is a proposal for dealing with architecture-specific example
> files. The idea is to put them in /usr/lib/p
ituation at the time.
Please continue the thread on -policy (Reply-To: field is set).
Thanks,
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I would like to spend some time this week updating policy and do an
NMU to reflect the decisions of this group. Is anyone already working
on it?
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ould the copyright
> > be updated?
>
> Briefly: yes.
So what should it say? Would an extra line:
Copyright (c)1998,1999 Debian Policy List Members
be appropriate?
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y closes them.
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e? If the latter, then we need a dpkg NMU
(Wichert? Ben?) before this can be placed in policy.
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_dotlock (path) == 0)
> return 0;
> do_fcntl_unlock (fd);
> }
> sleep (rand() % 10);
> }
> return -1;
> }
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I'm not quite clear from the bug logs what the final agreed wording is
for this proposal. Please could you let me know?
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> At 00:14 +0100 1999-10-26, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> >Just a question which I haven't thoroughly investigated yet:
> >
> >I'm about to add #41232 (source dependencies) to the next policy
> >version. But will this break existing tools? In particular, will the
n dependencies work on every system even with
> static libraries. It may be that this is unusual, but I can't see this
> as a bug of mico!
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being ok that *Debian*
> distributes mirror as a .deb and as a .orig plus .diff.
>
> IMHO, the way the question was formulated makes the "ok" from the author
> to be Debian-specific, but the maintainer disagrees.
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nst packages which don't have the needed
update-alternatives in their prerm?
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the
> tests created.
>
>
> To assist in writing test scripts, there should perhaps be support
> package(s) which contain useful utilities for (eg) applying regexps to
> the output of things, etc.
>
> Ian.
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I figured since it actually seems like there are no major outstanding
objections to this proposal that I
Any thoughts on this one, or should it be dropped for the time being?
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It seems that this proposal was rejected due to dpkg -iGROEB being
superceded by apt-cdrom. Is this correct?
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rry around
> the extra baggage of kernel headers).
Not necessarily.
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ble
and set-group-id) and be owned by root.staff.
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Reading bug #31645, it seems clear that the Packaging Manual was
accepted as policy, although Joey had reservations.
Should I go ahead and make the modifications Manoj proposed?
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dep, Build-Conflicts-Indep
The Build-Depends-Indep and
Build-Conflicts-Indep fields apply to the
targets binary and binary-indep.
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Santiago indicated a contradiction between APT's behaviour and the
packaging manual. Santiago: could you suggest a rewording of the
packaging manual which would resolve this issue?
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> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Do we need to then specify this in the policy manual, or will it be
> > sufficient to file bugs against packages which don't have the needed
> > update-alternatives in their prerm?
>
> No need to put this in the policy
earer.
"Dependencies" could be misleading.
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Has this proposal been effectively rejected?
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e one the scripts belong to.
as proposed by Hamish.
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> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > It seems that this proposal was rejected due to dpkg -iGROEB being
> > superceded by apt-cdrom. Is this correct?
>
> I don't think so.. this was that patch that added an option to dpkg
> to use filenames instead of l
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> > Given that there are now two sorts of depends, I am changing the
> > paragraph:
> >
> >Packages may not depend on packages with lower priority values. If
> >this should happen, one of the priority v
I second this proposal.
[Joey, do you want to change the status of this proposal in the BTS?]
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> Actually checking that all sources can be build is a fulltime
> job. There may not be any loops in the dependencies of sources (except
> for essential and required).
Why not? There's a well-known procedure called bootstrapping
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>
> > + However, because '/usr/local' and its contents are for
> > + exclusive use of the local administrator, a package must
> > + not rel
wrong. I'd appreciate someone to check through the policy
and packaging manuals to see that they look OK.
Thanks,
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ependency, then it does not need to be listed itself. Although,
having said this, I think this is obvious.
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> Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
To quote the latest message in the bug report, from Joey:
Ok, to sum up, I have 2 seconds, and the only concern anyone's had is if
these files will ever appear at all. I have found one occurr
rately, we need something like
that.
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> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> > How about:
> >
> >Packages may not depend on packages with lower priority values
> >(excluding build-time dependencies). If this should happen, one of
> >the priority values will have to be ad
metapackage
>
> What do people think?
>
> I am volunteering to maintain this package unless somebody else wants
> it badly.
Excellent -- go for it!
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orrect section 3.3 to take account of file-rc (#41547)
Included.
> Policy still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d (#32448)
Included.
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What's the actual wording which should go into policy?
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just very unlucky
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ft version.
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us to wait with the /usr/doc ->
/usr/share/doc move until we had a strategy for doing so. We now do,
and 3.1.0.0 will describe this and close this bug.
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Any progress on this, by any chance? There was a suggested
implementation in the bug report; should that go in policy as a
footnote?
Julian
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> > I am about to include this amendment in policy. However, I am stuck
> > with the w
xmaps, which is unnecessary.
Please give your comments before I make a proposal.
Thanks,
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> Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Im don't think I'm subscribed to -policy. Please Cc]
>
> > (1) All pixmaps and bitmaps live in /usr/share/icons. End of story.
> > *NO* pixmaps or bitmaps will live in /usr/X11R6/include.
>
>
tePixmapFromBitmapData(...)
And they can be parsed and used without X.
> As a result of that upload, my system no longer has anything at all in
> /usr/X11r6/include/bitmaps, so I think we've just achieved a big chunk
> of your proposal #2...
Just xviewg to go
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all of the package errors sent to this list.
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les, I think the distinction is confusing and unhelpful.
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> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Well, maybe. They are, indeed, written as C include files, but that
> > does not make them C include files: programs do not tend to say things
> > like:
>
> I've seen lots and lots of programs that do exactly that and I woul
aving
symlinks from /usr/X11R6/include/X11/{bit,pix}maps -> /usr/share/icons
as another possibility.
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3.1.0.0Oct 99
Policy Manual:
- /usr/doc/ has to be a symlink pointing to
at's reverting to /var/lib
in FHS 2.1, so feel free to use it. (We've now got FHS 2.1-pre3 in
the potato debian-policy.)
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stion: if xfree86-common were to move all of the icons
currently in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/{pixmaps,bitmaps} into
/usr/share/icons and then set up symlinks, how badly would things
break wrt dpkg? I'm certainly not advocating that we do anything
before the potato release, though. Too much to go wron
*never* been used? But if opinion is
strongly pro-/usr/share/images, I'll be happy with that.
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" package to
run, and that includes the interpreter used (if any).
Thoughts?
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On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:53:57AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 02:54:56PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > But: I just realised. For bash (or whatever essential packages
> > provide /bin/sh and /bin/perl), the situation is far worse: what
> > ha
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Another one! Will be corrected in the next version.
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But sadly, on occasion, this is the case.
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ince we still
> > > tell people that there are non-free packages that can improve things.
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:39:03PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > But sadly, on occasion, this is the case.
>
> Hmm..
>
> Go over to debian-legal and read the Corel t
affected:
> [...]
> So 104 suggests scattered amoung 69 packages.
Also, taking into account versioned suggests:
wml suggests libgd-perl
xfig suggests gs-aladdin
dhelp suggests glimpse
So 107 suggests among 71 packages.
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>
> I have no idea why. Most odd.
Which available file? /var/lib/dpkg/available or
/var/cache/apt/available? apt-get only updates the former if it is
being called from dselect.
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I thoroughly agree.
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On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 10:11:28PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I would encourage people to reread sections 4 and 5 of the social
> > contract. Debian *acknowledges* the existence of non-free software,
> > an
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 10:02:28PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 02:03:48AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I would encourage people to reread sections 4 and 5 of the social
> > contract. Debian *acknowledges* the existence of non-free software,
> > and
erarchy
not being present.
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they will still need to be reported as bugs.
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Donate fre
ield.
> Please, see bug 50319.
> Thanks and sorry for my poor english.
Say "Architecture: any" if it contains compiled binaries and
"Architecture: all" if it doesn't. You'll soon get bug reports if it
fails on another architecture, and you'll need to fix th
ain TeX, I would guess.
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quite: if you created /usr/local/lib/gobble, then on package
purge/removal, you may
rmdir /usr/local/lib/gobble 2>/dev/null || true
but you may not rmdir /usr/local/lib even if /usr/local/lib didn't
exist when you installed the package.
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jurisdiction, but you can file a bug
or require the package to be built with a certain compiler version.
(3) Architecture or OS specific package, such as a set of tools for
x86 hardware or a Hurd-specific package. Then there's no point
building for other architectures.
I've o
hers").
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> Peter
Corrected in my CVS version; will be fixed in next release.
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one needs to go to -policy to thrash out.
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issues.
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policy. However, there is only one libfoo-dev package, and
that can contain the .la files.
Since I am no technical expert on these issues, I am going to step
back from the discussion at this point.
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so unless the package knows about loading its own libraries, that's
not much use. (Apache is such a package.)
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ges/wm-icons or whatever. Then only the types of
programs which would use those images would have to search that
subtree. We would possibly need a mini-policy on the subtrees
allowed.
Thoughts anyone?
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o these questions.
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modules don't need static and shared versions, don't need
a -dev package,
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