Bug#698556: Bug#609736: please readd MAKEDEV calls to init.d.functions

2013-02-18 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: severity 609736 serious On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 07:45:11PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: I would be quite disappointed if I now have to add mknod statements to my own init script or the isdnutils init script or rc.local. (It is besides the point that I know how to do this. Some other user

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 20:24:09 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: Package: tech-ctte I filed bug #700677 because ntfs-3g has a shared library that ubuntu's testdisk links to, but it does not follow the SONAME rules. It seems that upstream breaks ABI on every release, and the maintainer feels that

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/2013 11:09 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: I would have thought that the correct place to discuss confusing sections or possible interpretations of the policy manual would be the policy mailing list, where improvements could get proposed if the

Bug#698556: Processed: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

2013-02-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Andreas Barth wrote: 4. While I see reasons to consider the udev solution nicer if it would be available, I fail to see a reason why it would be better to have users creating their own startup scripts then to include sensible

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. I'd like to speak a bit to what tthe right answer here is rather than what the policy currently says. It's sometimes fairly annoying to move a library out of the default path and to adjust the build system accordingly. Russ did that for one of krb5's private libraries, and in retrospect, I

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/2013 1:04 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: What could be done is that the shlibs file sets up a strict version dependency. It currently says: libntfs-3g 837 ntfs-3g udeb: libntfs-3g 837 ntfs-3g-udeb Collin Watson suggested this as a reasonable

Bug#700759: Re: Bug#700677: Incorrect upstream versioning / ABI breakage

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:57:46AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On 16/02/13 05:36, Daniel Baumann wrote: n 02/16/2013 03:40 AM, Colin Watson wrote: have ntfs-3g Provides: libntfs-3gSOVER (substituted as appropriate) patches welcome. Here is the patch to implement this. Tested to work

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/2013 1:21 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: 2) don't install a .so in a -dev package. That might be a signal a human can understand, but the build system won't catch it. The goal is to make sure the build system doesn't generate broken binary

Bug#700759: Re: Bug#700677: Incorrect upstream versioning / ABI breakage

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:45:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:57:46AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On 16/02/13 05:36, Daniel Baumann wrote: n 02/16/2013 03:40 AM, Colin Watson wrote: have ntfs-3g Provides: libntfs-3gSOVER (substituted as appropriate)

Bug#698556: Processed: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

2013-02-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Christoph Biedl wrote: Don Armstrong wrote... Finally, do we have a tested patch available to re-enable the necessary scripts? Rest assured I did very extensive testing before the submission of my patch, and also spent a lot of time on a careful analysis of the

Bug#698556: Processed: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

2013-02-18 Thread Christoph Biedl
Don Armstrong wrote... On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Christoph Biedl wrote: Rest assured I did very extensive testing before the submission of my patch, and also spent a lot of time on a careful analysis of the present code, resulting in the longish description of the patch. Is that this patch?

Bug#698556: Processed: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

2013-02-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
Christoph Biedl debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de writes: Don Armstrong wrote... On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Christoph Biedl wrote: Rest assured I did very extensive testing before the submission of my patch, and also spent a lot of time on a careful analysis of the present code, resulting in the