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Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 19:53, Carsten Hey wrote: > * David Kalnischkies [2012-02-17 14:15 +0100]: >> You generously left out the paragraph describing how APT should >> detect that the package foo is in fact a library ... > > My impression was that you think very library centric.  All I wrote was

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2012-02-17 17:20 +0100]: > Why would it be intuitive to add a specific value for the arch attribute with > apt-get install foo # arch |= native > but remove all values of the attribute with > apt-get remove foo# arch &= ~all-architectures > ? We had a similar discussion

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2012-02-17 14:15 +0100]: > You generously left out the paragraph describing how APT should > detect that the package foo is in fact a library ... My impression was that you think very library centric. All I wrote was (in other words), that we should consider non-library pack

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > David Kalnischkies wrote: >> Why would it be intuitive to add a specific value for the arch attribute with >> apt-get install foo # arch |= native >> but remove all values of the attribute with >> apt-get remove foo# arch &= ~all-architectures >> ? [...] > But I real

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
David Kalnischkies wrote: > Why would it be intuitive to add a specific value for the arch attribute with > apt-get install foo # arch |= native > but remove all values of the attribute with > apt-get remove foo# arch &= ~all-architectures > ? > > Isn't it more intuitive to have it this way:

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 15:46, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > David Kalnischkies wrote: > >> You generously left out the paragraph describing how APT should >> detect that the package foo is in fact a library and not, say, a >> plugin, a dev-package, a dbg-package or a future-coinstallable binary. >> An

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
David Kalnischkies wrote: > You generously left out the paragraph describing how APT should > detect that the package foo is in fact a library and not, say, a > plugin, a dev-package, a dbg-package or a future-coinstallable binary. > And the foo:* default would be okay and intuitive for all of tho

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 23:10, Carsten Hey wrote: > * David Kalnischkies [2012-02-16 03:59 +0100]: >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 00:39, Russ Allbery wrote: >> >>>   it needs to find and remove foo:* > > foo:all (or foo:any) instead of foo:* would save the need to quote it. :all is already an archit

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Carsten Hey writes: > * Russ Allbery [2012-02-16 14:55 -0800]: >> Every file that differs has to be fixed in the current multi-arch plan. >> Documentation that contains its build date is going to need to be split >> out into a separate -docs package. > I doubt that ftpmaster would be happy about

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* Russ Allbery [2012-02-16 14:55 -0800]: > Carsten Hey writes: > > There are still files that differ that do not need to be fixed, for > > example documentation that contains it's build date. > > Every file that differs has to be fixed in the current multi-arch plan. > Documentation that contains