Re: splitting debian-devel-changes

1998-01-08 Thread Martin Mitchell
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, now that the Debian ports generate a lot of postings in debian-devel-changes, I think it is time to split that list by architecture. I think a more complete approach is needed for this issue. Other things which should be considered: - Changing

Re: splitting debian-devel-changes

1998-01-08 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 06:43:55PM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: I think a more complete approach is needed for this issue. Other things which should be considered: - Possibly a more compact format for upload announcements for binary-only recompiles. What rushes to my mind is another

Re: [Fwd: dhelp support?]

1998-01-08 Thread Marco Budde
Santiago Vila wrote: Hi! Marco Budde has asked me to add dhelp support in debmake (he even sent me patches), but there is a doc-base package planned for Debian 2.1. Since it seems that doc-base and dhelp will have very similar goals, I don't think it is a good idea to support dhelp (through

Re: splitting debian-devel-changes

1998-01-08 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, as Christian Schwarz has pointed out to me (and I agree), it would be better to postpone this debate until the new uploading procedure is approved and installed (see the next policy weekly posting). Thanks. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia

Re: Policy for group ownership of games (Was: Re: Bug#15846: rocks-n-diamonds: errors on startup)

1998-01-08 Thread Joost Kooij
Guy Maor wrote: Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That doesn't seem simple to me. It requires that a lot of games be patched to allow for a command-line switch to override the location of data files. I doubt that it's that hard to implement. Suggest it to the game's author at

Building -dbg libraries

1998-01-08 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On 8 Jan, Guy Maor wrote: Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently managed to add some sources in my -dbg shared lib packages, to make them easily debuggable. (See bug#16038 on 30 Dec) I rather liked your solution to the problem of debuggable shared libs, but you need to