Bug#650077: dpkg: The Installed-Size estimate can be wrong by a factor of 8 or a difference of 100MB

2011-11-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.1.2 Severity: wishlist Symptom ~~~ I just installed libjs-mathjax. According to its Installed-Size this would just consume 16512KB. Now according to policy this is just an estimate of course. But how accurate is it actually? So I installed said package on ext3.

Bug#628515: recommending verbose build logs

2011-11-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Matthias, Matthias Klose wrote: It's always interesting to look at build logs, or to receive bug reports of the form CC compiler error message or CCLD linker error message without knowing how the compiler or the linker were called. Maybe it is convenient for a package

Timeline for 3.9.3 ?

2011-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Policy maintainers, the 3.9.2 release happened last April, and since then 9 bugs were closed, about syntax of control files, japanese fonts, the machine-readable copyright file format, and the Perl and Motif policies. I wonder what is the timeline for a 3.9.3 release. I of course have DEP

Bug#630174: debian-policy: forbid installation into /lib64

2011-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-policy@lists.debian.org tag 630174 + patch usertags 630174 + normative thanks Le Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:28:41PM -0500, Steve Langasek a écrit : On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:58:02PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 13:49:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

Processed: Bug#630174: debian-policy: forbid installation into /lib64

2011-11-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: user debian-policy@lists.debian.org Setting user to debian-policy@lists.debian.org (was ple...@debian.org). tag 630174 + patch Bug #630174 [debian-policy] debian-policy: forbid installation into /lib64 Added tag(s) patch. usertags 630174 +

Bug#633994: debian-policy: confusion over what the license information in the copyright file actually means

2011-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Nicholas, this summer you have submitted a bug against the Debian policy, about “what the license information in the copyright file actually means”. After reading again the whole discussion, my feeling is that much of the answer would be actually be given by a resolution of

Bug#633994: debian-policy: confusion over what the license information in the copyright file actually means

2011-11-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Charles, Charles Plessy wrote: this summer you have submitted a bug against the Debian policy, about “what the license information in the copyright file actually means”. After reading again the whole discussion, my feeling is that much of the answer would be actually be given by a

Bug#630174: debian-policy: forbid installation into /lib64

2011-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:55:20AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:28:41PM -0500, Steve Langasek a écrit : On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:58:02PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 13:49:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Here is a patch. According to

Bug#630174: debian-policy: forbid installation into /lib64

2011-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 09:52:57PM -0600, Steve Langasek a écrit : On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:55:20AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: According to apt-file, prohibiting to install files into /lib64 and /usr/lib64 on amd64 would make only one package RC-buggy, juffed, in its experimental