That's part of why Myth and I are bringing this to the -policy list. I don't have a suggestion/preference. I just want to implement in lintian the right thing. Right now, there are many requests for overrides/bugs filed to get various checks turned off.. but as I read policy now.. that's against the rules.... and WRT lintian, I'm policy-pedantic.
-----Original Message----- From: Julian Gilbey To: Darren Benham Cc: [email protected] 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, 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. 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 answers to these questions. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/
