Re: Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
<#part sign=pgpmime> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:33:05 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot: I vote AB. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

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: Bug#571776: document symbols

2012-03-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 17:26:04 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >These dependencies must be added to the binary > > package when it is built, since they may change > > This means packages must not hard-code library dependencies. It > also seems like good policy, but I

Re: Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot: A. dpkg-buildpackage, when doing a binary-only build (-B), should probe the package with "make -qn" to see if the build-arch target appears to be implemented. If so, it should use "debian/rules build-arch" to build the