Bug#720507: .dsc field for dgit [and 1 more messages]

2013-08-23 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Is just Dgit too short ? Works for me. Bdale pgpl5oEkTjw_X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#604397: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:56:22 +0200, Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org wrote: Why 3 below 5? Introducing a new field that must be filled in and kept (manually) in sync with information that is already present in the rules file just doesn't seem like a good solution. I'm less afraid of 4 than

makedev is now priority extra

2009-09-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
Bug #545309 causes me to realize that the recent lowering of priority for makedev to 'extra' motivates a review and update of policy section 10.6. Given udev, the majority of Debian systems in the future are unlikely to have makedev installed at all. There may be enough usage cases for static

Re: Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
I think he ment that you can not know wether the setting comes from dpkg-buildpackage or the user. If it comes from dpkg-buildpackage then debian/rules should be free to override it as needed. If it comes from the user then that is another story. At least that is my take on it. This is a

Re: Bug#157131: Bug#113525: Bug#157131: [PROPOSAL] Suggest to minimize optimization when DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains debug

2002-08-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oohara Yuuma) writes: On 18 Aug 2002 20:18:43 -0400, Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + Although binaries in the build tree should be compiled with + debugging information by default, How can I do it without wasting autobuilder's CPU time? Don't worry

Bug#157131: Bug#113525: Bug#157131: [PROPOSAL] Suggest to minimize optimization when DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains debug

2002-08-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Walters) writes: Any seconds? I note a typo in the first line of your change: + By default, when a package is being built, it any binaries Want to lose the word 'it' in that line? Other than that, I second this proposal. Bdale

Re: /usr/doc

2002-07-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes: In the meantime, I would like to move forward with this transition before we embark on other changes like gcc 3.0 recompiles. That is all. Sounds like a good plan. Anyone thinking about release notes for sarge yet? Noting that the transition is complete,

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2002-03-18 Thread Bdale Garbee

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Bunk) writes: So far the following packages do not follow the rule : 4) bind For what it's worth, yesterday's upload of bind 8.2.5 eliminated the one remaining guaranteed pause for interaction on install, so it's no longer a problem. The bind9 packages

Bug#81852: seconded

2001-02-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I second the proposal to allow DFSG free crypto programs into the main archive. Bdale -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Bug#65764: my thoughts

2000-06-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
I've thought about this a bit, since Josip pointed the issue out to me on IRC. Here is my take on it, as a long-timer... I was never aware that policy required putting a summary of changes in the copyright file, and I've never done it. I note that a couple packages I now maintain contain such

Bug#51412: conflict in documents

1999-11-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 12:01:44AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: There needs to be a canonical list of the packages that are part of the build-essential set *somewhere*. Why? Ok, I've gone back and re-read the policy section carefully, and thought about this quite a bit. Fundamentally

Re: Policy about packages that have Tk dependent parts.

1997-11-30 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : 2) Create a single package suggests Tk rather than depending on or : recommending it I like this option, along with some text in the long description field of the control file explaining that one or more of the utilities use Tk, but that Tk is not

Re: additional virtual packages for kde

1997-11-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : (For simplity and without loss of generality, I'm just describing the : solution for kdebase and kdegraphics. Furthermore, the Depends: lines : have been simplified.) : : The Debian packages: : Package: kdelibs0g : : Package: kdebase : Depends:

Re: additional virtual packages for kde

1997-11-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : their packages are available, ours not... I think there are two things that I must have missed in the discussion on this topic: - why are there two sets of KDE packages? One should be sufficient. - why can't your KDE packages be made

Re: Forwarded: RFC: New source packaging format

1997-10-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'm remarkably unopinionated about how we package sources, except that I'm pretty happy with dpkg-source and so it seems reasonable to me to tweak the things that need tweaking in dpkg-source, rather than do something radically different. However, you