Re: Bad version number based on date advice in policy?

2003-12-08 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Bad version number based on date advice in policy?

2003-11-29 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Bad version number based on date advice in policy?

2003-11-29 Thread Herbert Xu
instance, it is not obvious whether a package will spend most of its life as MMDD or X.Y until that switch has been made. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Bug#218530: Suboptimal conditional rune for initscripts

2003-11-02 Thread Herbert Xu
those things will all be considered by the shell. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Colons in upstream version.

2003-11-01 Thread Herbert Xu
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Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section

2003-08-04 Thread Herbert Xu
, this will allow packages declaring pre-dependencies on adduser to run their preinsts even though the new passwd is not yet available, rendering adduser useless. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section

2003-08-03 Thread Herbert Xu
, and perl-base apparently only change things not affecting that particular operation. Can you really guarantee that this will be the case in future? Remember when perl broke during the libdb upgrade? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section

2003-08-01 Thread Herbert Xu
. Objection. There is no way to create any user in preinst as the tool to do so is not in an essential package. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section

2003-08-01 Thread Herbert Xu
-dependencies, and probably most of the things it depends on as well. You also need to ensure that adduser and anything that it depends on to function are always available at all times just like libc6. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Bug#190749: debian-policy: /etc/init.d scripts example 'test -f program-executed-later-in-script' should be 'test -x'

2003-04-27 Thread Herbert Xu
exists, not if it is executable. There is no point in test executability since the test is meant to determine whether the package has been removed or not. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: POSIX shell clarification

2002-12-22 Thread Herbert Xu
) || echo failed failed dash$ FOO=$(false) echo worked worked This is definitely a (recent) bug in dash. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: POSIX shell clarification

2002-12-22 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:34:03PM -0500, Decklin Foster wrote: Thanks. Could you point me to where the correct behavior is specified? Penultimate sentence before section 2.9.1.1. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: Bug#171221: openmotif: openmotif is not a native package

2002-11-30 Thread Herbert Xu
the upstream tarball btw. It is as-is within the uploaded tarball, together with patches and other files I need to build the debs. Perhaps the general opinion on this has changed. What do other developers think about this? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu

Re: Bug#171221: openmotif: openmotif is not a native package

2002-11-30 Thread Herbert Xu
for that, but I don't see noted that other packages are not allowed to be packaged that way. I'm reassigning this to debian-policy so we can get a general opinion on this section. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

2002-11-13 Thread Herbert Xu
the symlink. They would get a warning from man of course, but that should be easy to special case in man(1). Personally I think the manual page would be useful to users new to Debian. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Bug#120585: apparently what lintian does is valid, ldconfig use outside $1=configure is not documented as safe

2002-11-11 Thread Herbert Xu
unconditionally in a postinst script. Thus it is OK for a package to simply put ldconfig in its postinst without checking $1. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Bug#161455: debian-policy: reference to ash outdated

2002-09-19 Thread Herbert Xu
document does not explicitly state that. I do not think that there is a concensus about whether XSI extensions should be disallowed. So I object against including posh until this is clarified. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [RFC] *-rc.d - rc.d-* transition

2002-09-07 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-30 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-23 Thread Herbert Xu
back slashes. All SYSV shells behaved like printf %b\n $* This includes pdksh. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-21 Thread Herbert Xu
definition to standard output. [...] ls=foo is an alias definition. alias ls=foo is a command line that represents the alias definition. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-20 Thread Herbert Xu
outputs after an alias? If so that is indeed incorrect and will be fixed. More details please. %s=%s\n, name, value Will fix. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-20 Thread Herbert Xu
of command -v, the alias prefix is required. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-20 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-19 Thread Herbert Xu
clause. The other problem, then, is that we will have a situation wherein no shell in Debian would be suitable as /bin/sh (unless I'm assuming incorrectly about pdksh). Please be more specific. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-19 Thread Herbert Xu
., the options -a and -o, as well as parentheses for the test command or [. the obsolescent forms of kill and trap: kill -INT or kill -9. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-19 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-19 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-18 Thread Herbert Xu
scripting, it would be acceptable for us to specify UP as well as XSI. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-17 Thread Herbert Xu
/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-16 Thread Herbert Xu
in Debian provide type and test as builtins. That includes ash. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#114920: PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistency in perl module names

2001-10-09 Thread Herbert Xu
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herbert Xu wrote: I object. Until versioned provides work reliably, doing this prevents any use of versioned dependencies on such packages which may come back to haunt us. If something needs to declare a versioned dependency, it need only use

Bug#114920: PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistency in perl module names

2001-10-08 Thread Herbert Xu
object. Until versioned provides work reliably, doing this prevents any use of versioned dependencies on such packages which may come back to haunt us. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Bug#111025: debian-policy: typo in chapter 9: ldconfig and pre/post scripts

2001-09-10 Thread Herbert Xu
+ described in this paragraph. /p sect Seconded. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#111025: debian-policy: typo in chapter 9: ldconfig and pre/post scripts

2001-09-06 Thread Herbert Xu
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05-Sep-01, 16:52 (CDT), Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vociferous Mole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So? Isn't it a bug? This isn't a case of a policy change creating a bug, but of a existing bug being highlighted by the policy clarification

Bug#111025: debian-policy: typo in chapter 9: ldconfig and pre/post scripts

2001-09-06 Thread Herbert Xu
will second it. BTW, what is it with all the Steves in this thread? :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#111025: debian-policy: typo in chapter 9: ldconfig and pre/post scripts

2001-09-06 Thread Herbert Xu
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06-Sep-01, 06:59 (CDT), Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, what is it with all the Steves in this thread? :) Is your problem that there are so many of us, or that we seem to be excessively dim? I personally blame insufficient caffiene

Bug#111025: debian-policy: typo in chapter 9: ldconfig and pre/post scripts

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:53:20PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:52:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Would there be a problem with enshrining this with the following policy simplification? Nope. It still has the same problem, i.e., all packages simply doing

Bug#111025: debian-policy: typo in chapter 9: ldconfig and pre/post scripts

2001-09-05 Thread Herbert Xu
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Bug#111025: debian-policy: typo in chapter 9: ldconfig and pre/post scripts

2001-09-03 Thread Herbert Xu
. This change instantly creats a bucket load of RC bugs for no good reason. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#106280: packages shouldn't have to ask permission before calling MAKEDEV in postinst

2001-07-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: ...or an echo. Seconded. Better make that a printf :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-25 Thread Herbert Xu
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Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-24 Thread Herbert Xu
was precisely that there were situations where these directories were not in the PATH and this broke the scripts. Only because the user's system was misconfigured... -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-22 Thread Herbert Xu
, then the default behaviour of dpkg where it fails if things like start-stop-daemon isn't found in a PATH search would stand out like sore thumb. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-20 Thread Herbert Xu
/local/sbin in front of it to override start-stop-daemon. This simply isn't possible if PATH was set. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-12 Thread Herbert Xu
system that uses it, or at least as long as I don't know about it :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-06-11 Thread Herbert Xu
libgtrans is up to). Although the kernels aren't shared libraries, they are in the same boat and hyphens have been used there since very early on, e.g., we have kernel-source-2.4.5. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-11 Thread Herbert Xu
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:20:48AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and neither is libc6 because some parts of it can only be linked statically. Which ones? /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a. It contains atexit

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-10 Thread Herbert Xu
mangeling). Well, perhaps your time would be better spent in addressing these issues. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-10 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:35:30AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Herbert Xu wrote: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and neither is libc6 because some parts of it can only be linked statically. Which ones? nss modules come to mind. You mean: $ ls /lib/libnss

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-09 Thread Herbert Xu
doesn't even apply. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Radovan Garabik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arabic and hebrew have problem of being written right-to-left, and therefore they cannot be easily supported, unicode or not. That's a display issue, not an encoding one. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu

Re: mandate ldconfig -X?

2001-05-31 Thread Herbert Xu
. If this is not how ldconfig works currently, then it should be fixed. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Tightening up specification of /bin/sh

2001-05-20 Thread Herbert Xu
strongly. The only reason why things like POSIX exists is because in general there is no consensus. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: Defaults for satisfying dependencies - ordering gone?

2001-05-13 Thread Herbert Xu
it by adding back some editors. This isn't fool-proof, but so what? Agreed. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Defaults for satisfying dependencies - ordering gone?

2001-05-13 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Defaults for satisfying dependencies - ordering gone?

2001-05-13 Thread Herbert Xu
as an essential package depends on it. So this actually avoids the need for explicit dependencies. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: Defaults for satisfying dependencies - ordering gone?

2001-05-12 Thread Herbert Xu
. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Defaults for satisfying dependencies - ordering gone?

2001-05-12 Thread Herbert Xu
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:04:14PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: The comparison breaks down as there isn't an editor which is actually essential. Yes, but _an_ editor is almost essential. Well, it's essential all right if you consider that things like

Re: Defaults for satisfying dependencies - ordering gone?

2001-05-12 Thread Herbert Xu
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:07:30AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: From a package dependency point of view, almost essential is a world away from actually being essential. Packages can assume that the user has means of editing config files without declaring

Re: Defaults for satisfying dependencies - ordering gone?

2001-05-12 Thread Herbert Xu
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:38:09AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I'm not talking about editing config files here. I'm more interested in programs that invoke /usr/bin/editor. Well, see Policy section 12.4. Editors and pagers. Your point being

Re: Bug#94827: tktable; Build-Depends: debhelper

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
just for buildd's. Humans need them too. I wouldn't like to have to compile a package and fail near the very end just because it hasn't declared a proper versioned build-depends on debhelper. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Policy for stripping binaries

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Bug#94114: mesag3-glide2: mesag3-glide2 needs MESA_GLX_FX

2001-04-16 Thread Herbert Xu
by Mesa. Well, then it would be a good thing if it had a configuration file. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Policy rewrite: chaps 11-13

2001-04-03 Thread Herbert Xu
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Bug#90511: proposal] disallow multi-distribution uploads

2001-03-21 Thread Herbert Xu
). Otherwise, IMHO this just wastes the time of the maintainers involved. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#90511: proposal] disallow multi-distribution uploads

2001-03-21 Thread Herbert Xu
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Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)

2001-03-21 Thread Herbert Xu
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Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)

2001-03-21 Thread Herbert Xu
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Bug#90511: An alternative solution to old libraries problem

2001-03-21 Thread Herbert Xu
this check for nonfree packages since they may not have source. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)

2001-03-21 Thread Herbert Xu
comes from doing a stable/unstable upload. The problem is that the bad things which come from it are not due to the fact that they are stable unstable uploads. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)

2001-03-21 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:51:06PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:42:16AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: Are you saying that packages compiled against old libc6-dev packages are not guarranteed to work with a new libc6? Well, better tell that to all the application vendors

Bug#89473: PROPOSAL] dpkg-statoverride and Conflicts: suidmanager ( 0.50)

2001-03-16 Thread Herbert Xu
, this is what I did in telnetd: if [ -z $(dpkg-statoverride --list /usr/lib/telnetlogin) ]; then chown root.telnetd /usr/lib/telnetlogin chmod 4754 /usr/lib/telnetlogin fi -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page

Bug#89674: PROPOSAL] Clarify ldconfig usage

2001-03-15 Thread Herbert Xu
) become policy? Not only is this pointless, it also means that a lot of packages are now in violation of this policy. I propose that the and only if phrase be removed from the above sentence. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Policy rewrite: chaps 7-10

2001-03-15 Thread Herbert Xu
invocations of postrm? If the latter, then surely some forms of prerm can't assume dependencies either? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Bug#89674: PROPOSAL] Clarify ldconfig usage

2001-03-15 Thread Herbert Xu
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Bug#88058: PROPOSAL] ftp-client virtual package

2001-03-01 Thread Herbert Xu
that provides in the next release. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#83669: dynamic creation of libx.so.n

2001-02-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:13:44PM +1100, Brian May wrote: As such, I recommend that we change this bug title to: dynamic creation of libx.so.n Sorry, but this has been solved ages ago in ldconfig :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI

Bug#83669: dynamic creation of libx.so.n

2001-02-05 Thread Herbert Xu
required? Does ldconfig do that? ldconfig doesn't. But it isn't that hard to remove dangling symlinks in those directories, be it by ldconfig or some other utility. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: Directing Debian users to use project BTSes - should we?

2001-02-04 Thread Herbert Xu
for upstream You wouldn't have to do that if your downstream maintainer were doing his job properly and forwarding the bugs to you. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: Directing Debian users to use project BTSes - should we?

2001-02-04 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Directing Debian users to use project BTSes - should we?

2001-02-04 Thread Herbert Xu
the Debian BTS is a totally open system. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#83669: Shared libraries

2001-01-27 Thread Herbert Xu
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and allow shlibs with different minor version numbers to be installed together by encoding it into the package name. Of course, we'll have to manage /usr/lib/libfoo.so.2 dynamically as well. Break

Bug#83669: Shared libraries

2001-01-27 Thread Herbert Xu
and foo 2.1 installed, ldconfig will symlink foo 2.1 it to foo.so.2 which is exactly what you want. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Bug#83669: Shared libraries

2001-01-26 Thread Herbert Xu
how dpkg-shlibdeps works though. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#83669: Shared libraries

2001-01-26 Thread Herbert Xu
and hence find the correct .so file. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#77400: PROPOSAL] require packages to disable /etc/logrotate.d files on removal

2000-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
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Bug#73620: Policy example about INSTALL is wrong

2000-10-05 Thread Herbert Xu
of the variable should be /usr/bin/install. If it is set to a non-absolute path, configure will add dots in subdirectories to refer to the top-level command, and then calls to Well let's fix autoconf then. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI

Re: A thought on urgency

2000-09-20 Thread Herbert Xu
is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#69031: ITP netkit-timed new virtual package time-daemon

2000-08-12 Thread Herbert Xu
for now. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#55730: Updating policy

2000-07-12 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Bug#66535: proposal of virtual package: syslogd

2000-07-01 Thread Herbert Xu
Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: names: ftp-server, not ftpd, or c-compiler, not cc. I'd rather have the virtual package be named system-log-daemon. Just a suggestion. Personally I prefer syslog-daemon. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu

Re: Parseable copyright files

2000-06-19 Thread Herbert Xu
Lance Taylor Copyright (C) 1991,1992,1994 Linus Torvalds Copyright (C) 1992,1993,1994 Andrew Tridgell Copyright (C) 1992 Theodore Ts'o Copyright (C) 1994 University of Bristol, England -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page

Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package

2000-05-22 Thread Herbert Xu
, or it could leave cfinger entry alone, and you have to modify it manually - not good. That just means efingerd's postinst is broken. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package

2000-05-22 Thread Herbert Xu
? That doesn't seem to correspond to what's in cfingerd's prerm. Although it is buggy in that it shouldn't enable itself if there's already a finger service there. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package

2000-05-22 Thread Herbert Xu
arguments, it just silently ignores it and continue. Wrong. the argument to --remove is the pattern. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package

2000-05-22 Thread Herbert Xu
root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cfingerd This is broken. You should never have anything commented out with #off# unless the package in question is in an unconfingured state. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page

Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package

2000-05-22 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:28:35PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:25:06PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: after uninstalling both fingerd and cfingerd my /etc/inetd.conf contains: #:INFO: Info services finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd

Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package

2000-05-21 Thread Herbert Xu
change for potato. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Bug#63368: libglide2-v3: Unsatisified Dependancy

2000-05-05 Thread Herbert Xu
(hopefully it already does so in the case where it does not exist) because of ENODEV. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

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