Bug#319162: NMU patch

2005-09-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:42:25AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 03 septembre 2005 à 00:31 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : Yeah, right. binutils is unmaintained; the issue couldn't possibly be that you've made poor design decisions in your packages by making them dependent on

Bug#319162: NMU patch

2005-09-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 septembre 2005 à 03:04 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : If you're going to blame build failures on the toolchain, then policy (and release policy) is quite relevant. There are in fact quite a few toolchain options that *are* specified in policy: -O2, -O1, -O0, -g, -Wl,-z,-defs,

Bug#319162: NMU patch

2005-09-04 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Sun, Sep 04, 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: Yes, library dependencies are a major concern of mine, as I wrote at http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/dependency-hell/. But two design kludges don't make a good solution, as they say (paraphrased); I believe this is a problem we need to

Bug#319162: NMU patch

2005-09-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 02 septembre 2005 à 20:12 -0700, Blars Blarson a écrit : NMU patch attached. Oh, great. Do you know that, when a package is co-maintained by twenty-four people and a bug isn't fixed, there may be some reasons behind? This pseudo-fix won't help anything. Couldn't you help fixing some

Bug#319162: NMU patch

2005-09-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:59:27AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 02 septembre 2005 à 20:12 -0700, Blars Blarson a écrit : NMU patch attached. Oh, great. Do you know that, when a package is co-maintained by twenty-four people and a bug isn't fixed, there may be some reasons

Bug#319162: NMU patch

2005-09-03 Thread Blars Blarson
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:59:27AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 02 septembre 2005 ? 20:12 -0700, Blars Blarson a ?crit : NMU patch attached. Oh, great. Do you know that, when a package is co-maintained by twenty-four people and a bug isn't fixed, there may be some reasons

Bug#319162: NMU patch

2005-09-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 03 septembre 2005 à 00:31 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : Yeah, right. binutils is unmaintained; the issue couldn't possibly be that you've made poor design decisions in your packages by making them dependent on kludgy, non-default toolchain options that policy doesn't require the

Bug#319162: NMU patch

2005-09-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 03 septembre 2005 à 00:46 -0700, Blars Blarson a écrit : Oh, great. Do you know that, when a package is co-maintained by twenty-four people and a bug isn't fixed, there may be some reasons behind? If there was a reason for this easy to fix RC bug not being fixed, you should

Bug#319162: NMU patch

2005-09-02 Thread Blars Blarson
NMU patch attached. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. diff -urN ../orig/gnome-games-2.10.1/debian/changelog gnome-games-2.10.1/debian/changelog