On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:50:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
Right, this was a bug in the proposed patch, not a deliberate statement that
only libraries belong in these directories. (As I mentioned, the first
patch was something of a trial balloon.) I think this updated patch should
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:50:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:25:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
On Fri, Aug 21 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
The current restriction is specific to libraries. Don't we need to say
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 20:50:30 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 0bf8253..347c0bf 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -5584,6 +5584,40 @@ libbar 1 bar1 (= 1.0-1)
/item
item
p
+
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:25:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
On Fri, Aug 21 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
The current restriction is specific to libraries. Don't we need to say
that you can't put *any* files into any triplet directory that isn't
* Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [090823 21:51]:
Oh; so every second release - one release, 7 years ago, in which there
was a bug.
Thanks that you point out my mistake in so nice terms. I'm pleading
guilty of the high crime of doing an estimation and erring by 100%
(25% of all releases with
* Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [090822 22:11]:
What are the chances that exactly those directories will end up in future
FHS versions?
Why do you want me to speculate on the *chances* of its inclusion?
Preferably I'd like some arguments that ther is a high chance of its
inclusion.
my
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:57:07PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
Bitten by every second release changing where sparc64 stuff is at the
sparc platform and almost each of those transitions breaking my systems
in some way, I'd prefer if everything possible is done to avoid
changing it
* Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [090821 23:56]:
We are approaching the point at which it will be useful to begin having
packages in the archive that install to the multiarch library paths
({/usr,}/lib/triplet), for use with the multiarch-capable package manager
that's in progress. However,
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:09:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I think the only specific restriction needed is already spelled out -
that packages can only install to the triplet matching their own
architecture. Are there other restrictions that you think are called
for?
The current
Looks fine to me. Seconded.
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 0bf8253..100917d 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -5584,6 +5584,35 @@ libbar 1 bar1 (= 1.0-1)
/item
item
p
+
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 01:11:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:09:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I think the only specific restriction needed is already spelled out -
that packages can only install to the triplet matching their own
architecture. Are there
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
We are approaching the point at which it will be useful to begin having
packages in the archive that install to the multiarch library paths
({/usr,}/lib/triplet), for use with the multiarch-capable package manager
that's in progress. However, installing
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes:
The content of this particular change can also probably use refining -
in particular, we may wish to spell out use of
/usr/lib/triplet/package subdirs and /usr/include/triplet - but I
thought it would be worth getting feedback on this preliminary patch
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:47:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes:
The content of this particular change can also probably use refining -
in particular, we may wish to spell out use of
/usr/lib/triplet/package subdirs and /usr/include/triplet - but I
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:47:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
It looks good to me as a first step. Seconded, with the caveat that we
probably don't want to release this with Policy until we've hammered
out any specific restrictions on how those
On Fri, Aug 21 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:47:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
It looks good to me as a first step. Seconded, with the caveat that we
probably don't want to release this with Policy until we've hammered
out
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
On Fri, Aug 21 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
The current restriction is specific to libraries. Don't we need to say
that you can't put *any* files into any triplet directory that isn't
for your package architecture?
Hmm. My first read was
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