Re: document symbols

2012-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Russ Allbery wrote: I'm therefore including here the complete SGML source of that section not in diff format, followed by the diff of everything *outside* of that section. I think this will be easier to review. Thanks! I would have preferred a

Re: document symbols

2012-08-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: Okay, once more for the win. Hoorah! :) I don't see any problems in the normative content, so I'd second this if I could. Cosmetic nits (patch below): [...] +++ b/policy.sgml [...] @@ -5633,17 +5634,29 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1) [...] p

Re: document symbols

2012-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Hoorah! :) I don't see any problems in the normative content, so I'd second this if I could. Cosmetic nits (patch below): Thanks, applied. + In our example, if the last change to the ttzlib1g/tt + package that could change

Re: document symbols

2012-08-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: Let's go with 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg in the example to show the common case instead of the unusual case. I've applied this: Thanks. Looks good. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: document symbols

2012-07-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: I'll reply with an interdiff relative to the last version of the patch. Here it is. Subject: Clarifications to symbols and shlibs policy subject/verb agreement: s/provide/provides/ Packages with libraries or binaries linking to a shared library must use symbols or

Re: document symbols

2012-03-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 17:26:04 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: What about libraries like glib (assuming one only uses old symbols) that are never supposed to change soname? What about them? I wanted to make sure that forbidding hard-coded dependencies on them is

Re: document symbols

2012-03-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: I'm therefore including here the complete SGML source of that section not in diff format, followed by the diff of everything *outside* of that section. I think this will be easier to review. Thanks! I would have preferred a diff since it