Re: Bug#30036: debian-policy could include emacs policy

1998-11-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi Santiago == Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Santiago Would there be any objection to including the content of Santiago debian-emacs-policy.gz into the policy itself, instead of Santiago this reference? The idea is that while sub policy documents are being hammered out,

Processed: Handle all remaining packaging manual bugs

1998-11-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: severity 29522 wishlist Bug#29522: diversions Severity set to `wishlist'. retitle 29522 [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions Bug#29522: diversions Changed bug title. retitle 19179 [PROPOSED]: Shared Libraries clarification (ls -f)

gcc or cc?

1998-11-27 Thread Matthias Klose
AFAIK we tell developers to use cc, not gcc to compile programs. But in 4.1 the policy insists on using gcc. So it's not easy to compile all packages automatically with another compiler (like egcc).

Re: gcc or cc?

1998-11-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 13:00:58 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: AFAIK we tell developers to use cc, not gcc to compile programs. But in 4.1 the policy insists on using gcc. So it's not easy to compile all packages automatically with another compiler (like egcc). I think we have two goals here: -

Re: Bug#30036: debian-policy could include emacs policy

1998-11-27 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the emacsen sub policy sufficiently stabilized that it can become a bona fide policy document, and thus get greater exposure? We've got, what, at least ten or twelve packages using it. I'd say that if it's not stabilized, we have a

Re: gcc or cc?

1998-11-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 09:36:27 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: [standard build environment] I think that's a bogus argument; a broken gcc in /usr/local/bin would cause the same problem. A broken gcc in /usr/local/bin caused the libc6 problem. A standard build environment would therefore not have

Re: gcc or cc?

1998-11-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 16:25:09 +0100, Anders Hammarquist wrote: I think we have two goals here: - Make the developers use gcc for building C code in packages. [*] This is IMHO not a good idea. On the alpha architecture, gcc (at least 2.7.2.x) is broken, and all Debian packages in the