Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2024-04-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi. I have made the upload. But now I remember that this may get rejected for requiring new binary packages (not sure if this has changed since the last time), so wish me luck... Thanks a lot for all the help!

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2024-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2024-04-06 21:45 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > El 6/4/24 a las 20:53, Sven Joachim escribió: >> 1. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#id11 > > Ok, I had not read that part of Policy in a long time. > > One minor last thing: > > Assuming I make the changes and

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2024-04-06 Thread Santiago Vila
El 6/4/24 a las 20:53, Sven Joachim escribió: 1. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#id11 Ok, I had not read that part of Policy in a long time. One minor last thing: Assuming I make the changes and package the new available upstream version at the same time, can I

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2024-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2024-04-06 19:49 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: >> Patch attached, I have tested that it builds on amd64 and i386. looked >> at the generated Dependencies and verified that lintian does not go >> crazy, but that's it. Note that I had to add libtool-bin rather than >> just libtool to

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2024-04-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Patch attached, I have tested that it builds on amd64 and i386. looked at the generated Dependencies and verified that lintian does not go crazy, but that's it. Note that I had to add libtool-bin rather than just libtool to Build-Depends to prevent configure from complaining, and also pacify

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2024-03-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 08:02:18PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2024-03-30 12:38 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > El 30/3/24 a las 9:43, Sven Joachim escribió: > >> I think it would make sense for Debian to follow what Arch and Fedora > >> are doing, introduce a libdialog15 package with the

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2024-03-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2024-03-30 12:38 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > El 30/3/24 a las 9:43, Sven Joachim escribió: >> I think it would make sense for Debian to follow what Arch and Fedora >> are doing, introduce a libdialog15 package with the shared library and a >> libdialog-dev package with the .so symlink but

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2024-03-30 Thread Santiago Vila
El 30/3/24 a las 9:43, Sven Joachim escribió: I think it would make sense for Debian to follow what Arch and Fedora are doing, introduce a libdialog15 package with the shared library and a libdialog-dev package with the .so symlink but without libdialog.a, because that requires (if I understood

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2024-03-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-01-05 20:32 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > - Original Message - > | From: "Santiago Vila" > | To: "Thomas Dickey" , 1012...@bugs.debian.org > | Cc: "Sven Joachim" > | Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 7:09:22 PM > | Subject: Bug#101

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2023-01-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Santiago Vila" | To: "Thomas Dickey" , 1012...@bugs.debian.org | Cc: "Sven Joachim" | Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 7:09:22 PM | Subject: Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2023-01-05 Thread Santiago Vila
El 6/1/23 a las 0:39, Thomas Dickey escribió: On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 04:05:29PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: In Debian the static library has always been named libdialog.a, but the library according to the author is called libcdialog.so. A development package could have both static and

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2023-01-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 04:05:29PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Thanks a lot for the patch. > > Yes, it would make sense to move *.h and .a to a libdialog-dev package. > > But I'm not sure about the best way to proceed after reading the reply from > Thomas: > > > actually, a shared library is

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2023-01-05 Thread Santiago Vila
Thanks a lot for the patch. Yes, it would make sense to move *.h and .a to a libdialog-dev package. But I'm not sure about the best way to proceed after reading the reply from Thomas: actually, a shared library is generally preferred for development packages. This is what I build for my own

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2022-06-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 11:19:20AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Control: tags -1 + patch > > On 2022-06-04 09:52 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Package: dialog > > Version: 1.3-20211214-1 > > Severity: normal > > User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > Usertags: multiarch > > > > The

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2022-06-04 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: tags -1 + patch On 2022-06-04 09:52 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Package: dialog > Version: 1.3-20211214-1 > Severity: normal > User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: multiarch > > The dialog package is marked Multi-Arch: foreign, but contains the > static library

Bug#1012325: dialog: Multi-Arch: foreign package should not contain static library

2022-06-04 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dialog Version: 1.3-20211214-1 Severity: normal User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: multiarch The dialog package is marked Multi-Arch: foreign, but contains the static library /usr/lib//libdialog.a. This is flagged as an error by lintian. , | $