Bug#693793: New virtual packages: lv2-host and lv2-plugin

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:11:24AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Alessio, Alessio Treglia wrote: So, here is my proposal (which I've already posted on debian-devel): [...] + lv2-hostanything that can host LV2 audio plugins + lv2-plugin an LV2 compliant

Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:00:13PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:43:18PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Unless I'm missing something, and I did a text search through Policy, Policy is currently silent on the

Bug#742756: multi-arch and system-dependent header files

2014-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bill Allombert wrote: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -6955,50 +6955,61 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1) [...] + The requirement for C and C++ headers files to be + accessible through the search path +

Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries

2014-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Bill Allombert wrote: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -8466,7 +8466,11 @@ fi renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, emboth/em programs must be renamed. /p - + p + Binary executables must not be statically linked with the +

Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:46:48AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, Bill Allombert wrote: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -8466,7 +8466,11 @@ fi renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, emboth/em programs must be renamed. /p - + p +

Bug#742756: multi-arch and system-dependent header files

2014-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: OK, this is a first attempt (with 25 line of context). Seconded. We should eventually have a whole multiarch section that describes *when* one should do this, but this change is clearly correct in isolation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#742756: multi-arch and system-dependent header files

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:09:19AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: OK, this is a first attempt (with 25 line of context). Seconded. We should eventually have a whole multiarch section that describes *when* one should do this, but this change is

Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries

2014-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Russ Allbery wrote: Usually I argue for relaxing it to a should. In this case, I think we can flesh out the exception somewhat better and preserve the must. Binary executables must not be statically linked with the GNU C library, since this prevents the binary from

Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:26:03AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, Russ Allbery wrote: Usually I argue for relaxing it to a should. In this case, I think we can flesh out the exception somewhat better and preserve the must. Binary executables must not be statically