Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-09-02 Thread Joey Hess
Dale Scheetz wrote: > It was my understanding that, like the man and info transitions, these > problems are resolved by giving the tools the knowledge of the dual > locations. Our current binary dependencie scheme is sufficient to deal > with "incremental upgrades". Those packages that use the new

Multibyte encoding - what should a package provide?

1999-09-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
[Reference: bug#43702] I have had a request for a postgresql package with multibyte support. Such support would enable postgresql to store data in different character sets, so that data in Russian, Greek, Chinese or other scripts could be stored and sorted properly. There are several issues that

Re: Bug#43787: PROPOSAL] changing policy on compiling with -g .. a better way

1999-09-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
> > It worries me that we're going to become *very* dependent on a > > specific version of make all of a sudden. > > Why? Where? The only thing that's GNU make specific is the variable > defintion as a dependency, i.e. the suggested implementation of the > build-debug target. But that's only a rec

Re: uid/gid - comments?

1999-09-02 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > This is common enough... should we perhaps create a system wide file, that > > maps default {user,group}names to local {user,group}names? > > > > eg, in /etc/local_names: > > mysql mysql > > ups ups2 > > no, please do

Re: uid/gid - comments?

1999-09-02 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > No problem, but you could try to do something realistic and logical. I did. I read policy, asked base-passwd maintainer for static ids and got no response at all. Then I asked here, in the hope to get things in order, what we do right now, by this dis

Re: Bug#43787: PROPOSAL] changing policy on compiling with -g .. a better way

1999-09-02 Thread Roman Hodek
> It worries me that we're going to become *very* dependent on a > specific version of make all of a sudden. Why? Where? The only thing that's GNU make specific is the variable defintion as a dependency, i.e. the suggested implementation of the build-debug target. But that's only a recommendation

Re: Bug#43787: [PROPOSAL] changing policy on compiling with -g .. a better way

1999-09-02 Thread Roman Hodek
> This is the final form (or, at least, I am done with this). I am > forwarding this to bugs.debian.org My ok again for the second variant. Roman

Re: [PROPOSAL] changing policy on compiling with -g .. a better way

1999-09-02 Thread Roman Hodek
> Should these packages built with BUILD_DEBUG turned on have a > different name (i.e. libgtk1.2-dbg) than the standard packages? Is > there an easy way to do this other than replicating control file > entries? Hmm... I'd say they shouldn't. They have the same functionality as the non-debug packa

Re: [PROPOSAL] changing policy on compiling with -g .. a better way

1999-09-02 Thread Roman Hodek
> Umm, since the intent is not to make the old way of doing things > incorrect, we can do one of two things. Here are psuedo patches that > detail the approaches. (I personally prefer the second approach). The second one looks fine (except some typos). Roman

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-09-02 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joseph> Apache defaults to having /doc readable by only localhost, but Actually its still world-browsable, since thats easiest (and policy implies it). There are open bugs against this though. netgod i'm trying to convi

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-09-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 12:17:35AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > It was my understanding that this situation could be resolved in the same > > fashion that the man and info transitions were. By making the docs viewing > > programs aware of both the old and new locations, and back porting them > >

Re: Bug#43787: PROPOSAL] changing policy on compiling with -g .. a better way

1999-09-02 Thread Chris Waters
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:47:37PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > A simpler (though less comprehensive) solution would be to allow some > > way to pass the -g flag explicitly, through standardized variables. > > Something like: > > > > CC_DEBUG=-g dpkg-

Re: Bug#43787: PROPOSAL] changing policy on compiling with -g .. a better way

1999-09-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:47:37PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I wondered if anyone else has an opionion on which of these to choose. > > Either one works for me, but I think the first one is probably needed > > since some builds just can't be changed