Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:10:58PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Why? because they support building packages as root when
dh_testroot can solve a lot of headache ?
Ye gods! Removing dh_testroot does not break the build-as-root case!
What does
Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think things are fine the way they are, I think what you're
suggesting would be a lot of work, I see no tangible benefits,
therefore I oppose the idea.
The benefit is 9 characters less typing per rebuild cycle per person.
There were patterns put into
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Preserving would be useful if there were a lot of users or programs
taking the content of the maintainer field and stuffing it into a To
header.[...]
One program that does that is jennifer (of katie fame).
True. It could get away with tossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
This is incorrect. /usr/share is intended to be shared between
cooperating systems, but cooperating systems' root users might well
have secrets that they want to conveniently share.
/usr/share is not appropriate for that, as it is the OS's
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All packages have to be buildable with the current release. And this
does not include non-us if you happen to be in the us.
Nope, you may freely download from non-us.debian.org, even if you're
currently in the USofA.
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Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I feel it is very important every init script behave the same. However the
wording of section 10.3.2 is confusing:
The init.d scripts should ensure that they will behave sensibly if invoked
with start when the service is already running, or
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mail setups that do not understand MIME are antiquated to the point
that most email must be hard to deal with.
Fine by me.
Robbe But you were using characters outside ASCII as well, so one
Robbe needs tools to turn them from UTF8 gibberish into
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robbe Is Unicode manadatory now? (You somewhat incorrecly used
Robbe U+2010, hyphen, in that mail.)
Mandatory? mandated by whom?
Obviously MIME is mandatory for participation in policy process I
infer from your Fix your MUA comment. But
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
shite? Fix your own darned MUA.
Is Unicode manadatory now? (You somewhat incorrecly used U+2010, hyphen,
in that mail.)
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Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are some things that might want to be added before it
becomes truly official.
See the policy at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/
* gcj and how to handle that (should it be mentioned at all?).
I don't have the
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If they're not in /usr, they're off-limits.
As are the POSIX utilities for determining whether or not they're in
/usr.
What POSIX utilities do you mean? (I don't have that standard handy.)
SUSv[23] provide command -v as the standard way. Debian's
Can a file that is not human readable (editable) be a conffile?
gnome-libs-data declares /etc/mime-magic.dat (which is some kind of
binary database generated from the textual conffile /etc/mime-magic)
as such. The maintainer thinks this is correct -- I obviously don't.
I'm bringing this up on
I propose that instead of calling ldconfig, maintainer scripts of
packages containing shared libraries should call ldconfig -X.
Background:
ldconfig has two purposes:
1. For each shared library, create/update a symbolic link from the
library's soname to the library file. The link is only
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