Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-09-02 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 12:17:35AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: AFAIK, it's just not possible to make Apache (and other web browsers) make both /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc accessible at the one http://localhost/doc URL. With apache it's trivial. With less fully featured web servers (maybe boa

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

1999-09-02 Thread Chris Waters
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 sensibly. It worries me that we're going to become *very* dependent on a

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

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: 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: 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