Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Yes, I understand that, and I mostly agree. Now please write a lintian warning for PT_GNU_STACK. Mass bug filing me even before a

Re: Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Santiago Vila wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: As far as I can see, this is the _only_ bug report by Greg Norris on the PT_GNU_STACK issue! How can it be a mass bug filling ? Because many of the packages I maintain are also built on woody. Is there any good reason for that?

Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:50:17PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On another thread, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Could we automatically define some @linux@ or @any-i386@ variables the same way shlidbs or other substitutions work? That's

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2005-01-24 Thread Francisca Ingram
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Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Greg Norris
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:29:12PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Greg: Ease of adding, and potentional negative benefits would be very nice to have, and if it's going to be in policy, for lintian a way to check for it. Purpose: PT_GNU_STACK is used to mark binaries which require an

Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:45:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: type-handling already does all you ever want. Except: - its not in build-essential - its not integrated into dpkg or the build system So it may be fine, it doesn't actually do anything useful. If a pre-existing program